When was the eames lounge chair designed

Follow Galerie. Sign up to receive our newsletter Subscribe. An early advertisement for the Eames lounge and ottoman. Photo : Herman Miller. Photo : Simon Upton. Eventually, the style expanded to offer a variety of finishes, bases, and upholstery options. They became hugely popular, appearing everywhere from sports stadiums to college lounges. The Eames Lounge chair and the Eames Ottoman were released by the Herman Miller company in , and are still produced and sold today.

Unlike the sleek, spare lines of other Eames designs, this chair was intended to be, first and foremost, inviting. In her book Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century , the design historian Pat Kirkham notes that Charles once explained that the lounge chair should have,"the warm receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt. The Eames Aluminum Group was a collection of office furniture designed by Charles and Ray, and released in The most iconic item from the collection is the Task Chair, a classic office desk chair originally created with a mesh suspension back for outdoor use and adapted for the office.

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This product was designed by. Charles and Ray Eames are counted among the most important figures of twentieth-century design. Their work spans the fields of furniture design, filmmaking, photography and exhibition design. Vitra is the sole authorised manufacturer of Eames products for Europe and the Middle East. When you own an Eames product made by Vitra, you know it is an original.