The brazilian rosewood (rio palissander) has a beautiful wood grain and is in excellent vintage condition.
Charles and ray eames chair. The eames aluminum group was a collection of office furniture designed by charles and ray, and released in 1958. Every single charles & ray eames chair has become a cult classic. The aim was to create comfortable chairs that were affordable.
Some stories indicate charles wanted the chair to 'fit like a baseball glove' whilst others say he. Recognizing the need, charles eames said, is the primary condition for design. By herman miller, charles and ray eames.
Chair 36h x 32w x 31d, seat height 18h. Available in a range of wood finishes, upholsteries, and sizes, the eames lounge chair and ottoman remains ever more relevant today as it was in 1956. Unlike eero saarinen’s “womb chair”, charles and ray eames’ plastic shell is not upholstered.
Vitra is the eames office’s worldwide licensing partner for a number of eames accessory objects and also holds a worldwide license for the organic chair (design: Eames aluminum group task chair. The work of charles and ray eames:
The story behind the eames molded plywood chairs makes clear just how big a role imagination and serendipity play in design. A set of 4 of beautifully grained early dcm chairs by charles and ray eames for herman miller in a very hard to find zebrawood pressure molded plywood on chrome steel bases. Charles eames with a chair he designed and decorated, california, 1950.
A legacy of invention, traveling exhibition, library of congress, 1999 distribution rights herman miller and vitra are two independent companies with a common interest in the designs and legacies of charles and ray eames, george nelson, and alexander girard. The steel wires form a structure on which the upholstery can be attached. These distinctive objects are frequently made of metal and designed with extraordinary care.