Lounge Chair
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Charles Eames American, 1907–1978; Ray Eames (Bernice Alexandra Kaiser) American, 1912–1988. Lounge Chair, 1946. Ash plywood, rubber, metal, Overall: 25 3/8 x 22 x 23 in. (64.5 x 55.9 x 58.4 cm) Seat height: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm.). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor, 83.153.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 83.153.1_bw.jpg)
Manufacturer
Title
Lounge Chair
Date
1946
Geography
Place manufactured: Zeeland, Michigan, United States
Medium
Ash plywood, rubber, metal
Classification
Dimensions
Overall: 25 3/8 x 22 x 23 in. (64.5 x 55.9 x 58.4 cm) Seat height: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm.)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
no marks
Credit Line
Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor
Accession Number
83.153.1
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Frequent Art Questions
I see this chair a lot. Is there a story behind it?
You've found a LCW (lounge chair with wood base) designed by Ray and Charles Eames and manufactured in 1946 by Herman Miller. Hundreds of thousands of these have been made. The Eames were a husband and wife team that revolutionized the use of molded plywood in furniture design! Their work was highly influential and chairs in this style are still being made today. Ray and Charles Eames perfected their technique for molding plywood in 1942, when they designed lightweight leg splints to be used by the American military during the second world war. The organic form of the splints respond to the human body in the same way that this chair does. If you are interested, we have one of the splints nearby in the Luce Visible Storage and Study Center.
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