
Charles Eames; Herman Miller Furniture Company
1946
plywood, rubber
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A molded plywood chair with a curved seat and backrest is shown against a white background. The chair has four legs, with the front legs angled outwards and the back legs curving inwards. Form constructed of five shaped pieces of laminated and bent wood: contoured trapezoidal seat and back; front legs made from single narrow strip, horse-shoe shaped and tapered; shorter back legs made in same manner. Legs, seat and back connected by continuous wide ribbon of plywood. Shellacked.
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