Charles and Ray Eames designed their lounge chair and ottoman for Herman Miller in 1956, and the couple’s masterpiece became an instant classic of midcentury design as models 670 and 671.
‘We challenged ourselves with what we could do,’ says creative designer Aleck Jones. ‘We looked at about ten different material approaches for the chair.’ The jumping off point was the 1956 Eames ...
She knew its name, the Herman Miller Eames lounge chair and ottoman, and said that she knew someone else who had one — a finance guy. Oh, and come to think of it, there was another tech guy who ...
a non-profit formed in 2019 to help us explore Charles and Ray Eames’ legacy; particularly their timeless, iterative design process; the chair he sits in every day was designed by the Eameses ...
When renowned industrial designer Ray Eames sat down to conceptualize a new piece of furniture, often alongside her husband, Charles, she used her background as a painter to imagine all the ...
Widely known for its furniture design, the Eames studio was a design powerhouse in the mid 20th century, producing from airport seating to school children's chairs. A sizeable sample of its output ...
In 1946, Evans Products began producing the Eames’s furniture. Their molded plywood chair was called “the chair of the century” by the influential architectural critic Esther McCoy. Production was ...
Just this morning, a reader passed along a link to 1stdibs.com, where eight “Kleinhans” molded plywood chairs by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen (circa 1939) are now on the market, priced at ...