You have to love this fine example of modern design, hard to believe it was created more than 50 years ago! This brilliant masterpiece by Charles and Ray Eames combines grace with functionality. The Herman Miller Molded Plywood Lounge Chair LCW by Charles and Ray Eames is comfortable, practical, and lightweight. Molding thin sheets of lightweight veneer into gently curved shapes gives the hard material a soft, inviting appearance. This is a truly comfortable chair that’s suitable for businesses and homes.
The Charles and Ray Eames molded-plywood chair was their first attempt to create a single shell that would be comfortable without padding and could be quickly mass-produced. Throughout the early 1940s, the Eameses and their colleagues experimented with this concept. Discovering that plywood did not withstand the stresses produced at the intersection of the chair's seat and back, they abandoned the single-shell idea in favor of a two-piece chair with separate molded-plywood panels for the back and seat. The chairs -- plus molded-plywood tables and wall screens -- were unveiled to the public in 1946. Variations of these designs are still in production including this Eames LCW Chair made by Herman Miller and available through stardust.com.
A design critic once said that this extraordinary couple "just wanted to make the world a better place." That they did. They also made it a lot more interesting!
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