Eames Lounge Chair

The Lounge Chair and Ottoman are the corresponding designs of American designer couple Charles and Ray Eames from the year 1956.

Development

After several years of development, they presented the 1956 chair and the stool in front of which they developed for the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. Hermann Miller produced the furniture ever since. In Europe, the chair is produced since 1957 under license in vitra. While Herman Miller chair and ottoman produced with the designed by Eames Lounge Chair specifically for the frame with height adjustable stainless steel glides, equips vitra license version with the "Contract Base", which among other things, for numerous designs was used for tables and aluminum chairs. With the Lounge Chair Eames introduced their first designs for the high-price segment, previously they had focused on cheap furniture.

Construction

The chair and ottoman have a related basically the same design. On laminated wood shells that are stored on a rotatable steel foot, leather pillows are attached as a seat and as an armrest. The leather cushion can be removed. The selection of materials and the inks used are changed over time. The rosewood initially used did not appear to be sufficiently durable.

Chair

The chair consists of three laminated wood shells. The lower, to the star-shaped and the swivel base is mounted, is bolted to the central shell, which forms the lower part of the back part on a metal plate under the armrests. The plywood shell of the upper part of the backrest is connected via rubber- metal supported carrier with the central shell. Thereby it is possible that this part rebounds.

Ottoman

The upholstered ottoman consists of a bent plywood shell on a single seat cushion is fastened with leather cover. Unlike the chair of the base is cross-shaped, so it has only four individual feet.

Reception

The piece of furniture is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Design Museum Danmark in Copenhagen and other design museums. The Lounge Chair has been repeatedly used as a prop in movies and television productions.