The Iconic Eames Lounge Chair in eye-catching Interiors

The Iconic Eames Lounge Chair adorns all kinds of spaces. The first chair cre­ated by Amer­i­can design cou­ple Charles and Ray Eames for the lux­ury mar­ket has been in our homes for 56 years. Entan­gled in a story that promises to con­tinue, molded ply­wood and leather were com­bined in what would become an iconic design.

This fruit­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion between the husband/wife team and the Her­man Miller fur­ni­ture com­pany resulted in an inter­na­tion­ally appre­ci­ated lounge chair. It was ini­tially designed as a gift for the couple’s friend Billy Wilder, the direc­tor of “Some Like It Hot” and “Sun­set Blvd“. Years of devel­op­ment led to the release of the iconic Eames Chair in 1956. Since then, it not only inspired other fur­ni­ture items or objects, but has remained a ver­sa­tile piece of fur­ni­ture still being pro­duced for the US by Her­man Miller and for Europe by Vitra.

 

The orig­i­nal chair was made out of five lay­ers of Brazil­ian rose­wood veneer. Over the years some details were changed to adapt to mod­ern tech­nol­ogy. It’s mod­ern ver­sion has seven thin wood veneer lay­ers shaped under heat and pres­sure. Comfy cush­ions have a zip­per on the outer edge, con­nect­ing them to a stiff plas­tic back­ing that allows the veneer to be smooth and unin­ter­rupted by marks of screws or bolts.

We are all famil­iar with the strik­ing impact of an orig­i­nal piece of fur­ni­ture. This impres­sive chair cre­ates a dis­tinct atmos­phere around it, uni­fy­ing the inte­rior design with a clas­sic touch.