see also
warmgrey
/ ivory (79)
cognac
/ ivory (88)
yellow
/ poppy red (72)
poppy red
/ ivory (67)
pink
/ poppy red (68)
coral
/ poppy red (65)
red
/ poppy red (63)
red
/ cognac (96)
red
/ moor brown (62)
warmgrey
/ moor brown (80)
marron
/ moor brown (76)
nero
/ moor brown (78)
nero (66)
dark grey (05)
dark blue
/ moor brown (75)
dark blue
/ ivory (74)
blue
/ moor brown (84)
blue
/ ivory (83)
ice blue
/ moor brown (82)
ice blue
/ ivory (81)
petrol
/ moor brown (73)
mint / forest (86)
mint / ivory (85)
nero / forest (77)
ivory / forest (87)
grass-green
/ forest (70)
grass-green
/ ivory (69)
yellow
/ pastel green (71)
Charles Eames, born 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and opened his own office together with Charles M. Gray in 1930. In 1935 he founded another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After receiving a fellowship in 1938 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he moved to Michigan and assumed a teaching position in the design department the following year. In 1940, he and Eero Saarinen won first prize for their joint entry in the competition "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. During the same year, Eames became head of the department of industrial design at Cranbrook.
Ray Eames, born Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, was born in Sacramento, California in 1912. She attended the May Friend Bennet School in Millbrook, New York, and continued her studies in painting under Hans Hofmann through 1937. During this year she exhibited her work in the first exhibition of the American Abstract Artists group at the Riverside Museum in New York. She matriculated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940.
Charles and Ray Eames married in 1941 and moved to Los Angeles, where together they began experimenting with techniques for the three-dimensional moulding of plywood. The aim was to create comfortable chairs that were affordable. However, the war interrupted their work, and Charles and Ray turned instead to the design and development of leg splints made of plywood, which were manufactured in large quantities for the US Navy. In 1946, they exhibited their experimental furniture designs at MoMA. The Herman Miller Company in Zeeland, Michigan, subsequently began to produce Eames furniture. Charles and Ray participated in the 1948 'Low-Cost Furniture' competition at MoMA, and they built the Eames House in 1949 as their own private residence. In addition to their work in furniture design and architecture, they also regularly turned their hand to graphic design, photography, film and exhibition design.
In 1957 Vitra signed a licence agreement with Herman Miller and began producing the Eameses' designs for Europe and the Middle East. Charles and Ray Eames have had a profound and lasting influence on Vitra. It was the encounter with their work that spurred the company's beginnings as a furniture manufacturer. Yet it is not just the products of Charles and Ray Eames that have left a mark on Vitra. Even today, their design philosophy continues to significantly shape the company's values, orientation and goals.
Checker fabric
23% polyester, 77% cotton | 467 gr/m2
Alexander Girard developed the textile pattern 'Checker' in 1965 as part of his legendary redesign of the corporate image for Braniff International Airlines. The checkerboard design is a prime illustration of Girard's radical break from the conventional low-key aesthetic that characterised the sector at that time. The soft double weave fabric, with a high percentage of cotton, demonstrates exceptional purity of colour and its geometric pattern lends a striking note to any environment.
Hopsak fabric
100% polyamide | 550 gr/m2
Hopsak is an expressive, flat plain-weave fabric made of polyamide. The duotone colours offer a multitude of design possibilities in high-contrast, brightly hued or subtle combinations of warp and weft threads. Highly durable and robust, Hopsak can be used in private interiors as well as public areas.
Charles & Ray Eames
+ front upholstery
from 250 €
+ fixed seat cushion
from 90 €
Eames Plastic DAL
640 €
upholstery (optional)
83 - sea blue
56 - granite grey
48 - forest
43 - rusty orange
42 - green
41 - pale rose
34 - mustard
26 - sunlight
24 - light grey
23 - ice grey
12 - deep black
11 - pebble
04 - white
03 - poppy red
shell colours
+ front upholstery
+ fixed seat cushion
The seat shells of the Eames Plastic Chairs can be combined with a variety of different bases. The base for the DAL chair (Dining Height Armchair La Fonda Base) was developed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1961 for the legendary New York restaurant La Fonda del Sol, whose interior was designed by their friend Alexander Girard. With its central pedestal consisting of four parallel shafts that split at the bottom to form a four-star base, it is one of the most elegant and unconventional bases ever designed by the Eameses.
Shell polypropylene
Dimensions H81,5 x W63 x D60,5cm – Seat height 43cm
