I love the thought process, and as a furniture guy I get your motivation. I often look at the works of the masters and think “what were they thinking?”
If you do some research on this, and I assume you have, the answer is they had to design with what they had at the time. The Eames partnership were using WW2 fighter pilot seat technology and adapting it to consumer furniture.
Now 65 years on, we are faced with different constraints. How do we design without destroying what’s left? There are amazing materials coming out and new opportunities popping up all around us. I’m looking at recycled PET composites, wool blend felt and cork; bamboo and CNC machining; 3d printing and nano fibre.
There’s a rich narrative underlying the Eames lounge. I am left thinking what they would do if they were born in 1980 like I was.