Charles Eames Dining Chair

Each seat features two gauges of the material a mixture that adds strength but keeps manufacturing costs low.

Charles eames dining chair.

It is iconic and unique yet comes at a very costly price. Charles and ray eames realized their dream to create a single shell form over 80 years ago by making their molded chairs of fiberglass. What is an eames chair. Now you can own the eames replica chair and afford its uniqueness and elegance in the comfort of your home without breaking the bank.

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. The eames dining chair is unlike no other in its simplistic style and elegance. By herman miller charles and ray eames. 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.

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. Among their most recognized designs is the eames lounge chair and the eames dining chair. One of 22 stackable dining room chairs by charles ray eames for herman miller manufactured in midcentury 1974.

The resulting wire chair 1951 borrows the shell shape but reimagines the form in strands of steel. Located in vienna at. Quite simply an eames chair could be any chair designed by the now legendary american mid century designer charles eames.