What is the Eames chair?
close your eyes and think of a chair of the 1950s. Do you have it? More than likely than not, you imagined Eames. Charles Eames and his wife Ray Eames began to design their chairs with the only piece of plywood.
In the 1940s, shortly after marriage, Eames moved to California and decided to design his soon famous chairs. The intention was to create one piece of plywood in the seat comfortable and affordable chairs. With the machine they built to shape the seats, they were able to produce their product in bulk. The money was provided by a real studio and the ability to produce their first plywood chairs. Eames chairs were clearly modern design of the middle of the twentieth century. With a curved back and seat and aluminum legs, the Eames chair was attractive and comfortable. They were so attractive that the Furniture Group has gained attention Herman Miller, still one of the best furniture manufacturers in the United States, which makes Eames hit on the public market.
The proposals were still coming and in 1956 the Eames Lounge chair was introduced. When it is mentioned today, this is the first time. To see one in the twentieth first century, words like ergonomic or organic come to mind. The curved leather upholstered back, the tilt of fifteen seats, the five -star aluminum base and the slight giving, which will lean back, are characteristic of the Eames chair.
Eames contribution to modern design, however, achieved well around the chair. Their designs have spread towards toys, sculpture, graphics and even film. In 1949 the couple designed and built a house in Pacific Palisades, California. The Eames Foundation currently preserves this house and inheritance and Ray.
If imitation is the most pleasant feature of flattery, then Charles and Ray Eames have been flattered since the first discovery of their designs and still flatter. At the real Eames Salon and OsmanKnock-off may also be at a height of $ 3,000 (USD). However, the iconic place held in the twentieth century in modernism will never be at risk.