Charles Eames Dining Chair

The resulting wire chair 1951 borrows the shell shape but reimagines the form in strands of steel.

Charles eames dining chair.

Charles and ray eames realized their dream to create a single shell form over 80 years ago by making their molded chairs of fiberglass. Now you can own the eames replica chair and afford its uniqueness and elegance in the comfort of your home without breaking the bank. Charles was the public face of the eames office but ray and charles worked together as creative partners and employed a diverse creative staff. Among their most recognized designs is the eames lounge chair and the eames dining chair.

What is an eames chair. Charles eames and ray kaiser met at cranbrook academy of art in 1940. The chairs are labeled on the underside of the seats with herman m. One of 22 stackable dining room chairs by charles ray eames for herman miller manufactured in midcentury 1974.

It is iconic and unique yet comes at a very costly price. By herman miller charles and ray eames. While refining the design of their molded shell chairs charles and ray eames began experimenting with bent and welded wire. Quite simply an eames chair could be any chair designed by the now legendary american mid century designer charles eames.

When the environmental risks of that material became known the eames molded shell chair 1950 was changed to polypropylene which is 100 recyclable and has a pleasant matte texture. Description hailed by time magazine as the best design of the 20th century the iconic dcw or dining chair wood 1946 began as an experiment in the eameses apartment where they were molding plywood in what they called the kazam. The eames dining chair is unlike no other in its simplistic style and elegance.