I might be showing my “caveman” here, only in the last couple years did I finally buy a bed frame and move my mattress off the floor, but what is a lounge chair? Is that for inside or outside? Honest question, I’ve never heard of these Eames things.
Charles and Ray Eames were something of a power-couple who are held on a pedestal in the art and design community. Among other things, they pioneered methods for manufacturing three-dimensional bent plywood products. One of their first "important" products was a
leg splint, developed for the military during
WWII. Their work importantly was part of a period of increased ergonomic study resulting in mass-produced products that paid novel attention to the ways people are shaped.
After the war, they famously got heavily into designing
furniture. You've now seen the lounger that the OP was asking about. Depending when/where you grew up, it's possible you've personally seen their
DCW or (fiberglass)
shell chairs, which were designed for mass production and popular in a lot of institutions over the last 70 years.
The Eameses were intelligent, so they licensed their designs to Herman Miller who rightly trades on the name and history to charge what the market will bear. This means we groundlings look at the ironically-named
Design Within Reach catalogue and decide instead to buy something from WalMart for $200. I forget if Plycraft was a licensed reproduction, but theirs is (in my understanding) basically the only one that isn't awful, and good condition ones are getting pretty expensive now too.
Like any fashion product, if you care about the market it's worth what they charge. If not, then it's just rich-people trading cards. In its defense, the Eames is a really comfy trading card...