#the eames chair...

[vintagehomecollection]

Through the French doors, the office area is actually an alcove tucked into the eaves of a low roofline. Many people would discard this area as unusable.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

[lhedoniste]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[furniture-in-film]

Ray & Charles Eames Tandem Shell Seating (1962) in Scanners (1981) dir. David Cronenberg

[godwantsit]

[pwlanier]

One-of-a-Kind Charles and Ray Eames Chair in Ultra-Rare Zebrawood with Rosewood Ottoman.

Charles and Ray Eames designed their lounge chair and ottoman for Herman Miller in 1956, and the couple’s masterpiece became an instant classic of midcentury design as models 670 and 671. The Eameses, though, were aesthetically unbending, keen to ensure that their signature design was produced only in materials that they approved. As a result, the design exclusively used Brazilian rosewood until 1990. This example from the early 1970s, though, is an intriguing, and rare, deviation from their directives.

The previous owner of this chair and ottoman confided that it was an employee at the Herman Miller factory who took a zebrawood plywood sheet and pressed it into the formwork for the 670 lounge chair, a daring and rule-breaking feat. The bottom of the seat cushion is signed “Ken Lyon 1971,” probably the name of the employee who produced the chair as a one-off.

Zebrawood is its own unique material, a special cross-veneer- patterned wood offered on Peter Protzmann furniture for just two years, 1971 and 1972. It’s likely that Lyon took a piece of the raw material and surreptitiously used it to produce a one-of-a-kind Eames chair and ottoman. It’s an intriguing mystery: Was it a special order for a client, a fellow employee, or himself?

The fine, smooth khaki-green-leather upholstery is a recent addition. The ottoman is believed to be the original matching ottoman, though it has Brazilian rosewood veneer.

Robb Report

[eupat]

[shachormet]

[lovefrenchisbetter]

[thunderstruck9]

Eamon O'Kane (British/ Irish, 1974) , Imaginary ideal studio with Eames chair, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 120 cm.

[thevisualvamp]

Have a seat

[vintagehomecollection]

French doors close off an office area from the master bedroom. The solution can offer the most private place to put a home office; in this instance, it allows a writer an escape from a young, active family.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

[lhedoniste]

[vorthiolin]

A nice eames corner.

[furniture-in-film]

Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Arco Floor Lamp (1962), Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman (1956), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair (1929) in TRON: Legacy (2010) dir. Joseph Kosinski

[avant-greendecor]

San Francisco Soundscape: An Eames-Inspired Musical Escape

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