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The Eames-designed molded plywood chair was a boldly innovative breakthrough
when it was introduced in 1946. Herman Miller has been offering it ever since.
Comfortable, practical, and lightweight, it looks as contemporary now as
it did then - a modest chair that has come to represent the best of modern
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The Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair is a
bit broader,
wider, and shorter than the Molded Plywood Chair. |
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Features and Benefits
- Chairs are constructed of five-ply molded plywood with hardwood inner
plies.
- The outer ply of the chair can be specified in cherry, walnut, natural ash,
red-stained ash, or ebony-stained ash.
- The rod base and back brace are bright, chrome-plated steel.
- Rubber shock mounts absorb movement.
- Nylon glides protect floors.
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The Eames molded plywood chair. A true
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Time Magazine Names Eames Molded Plywood Chair the Best Design of the
20th Century
The timeless and elegant molded plywood chair by Charles and Ray Eames has been
hailed as the Best Design of the 20th Century by Time magazine.
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The outer ply of the
chair can be specified in cherry,
walnut, natural ash, red-stained ash, or ebony-stained ash. |
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The accolade appears in the magazine's final issue of the 20th century. Time
praised the Eameses for taking "technology created to meet a wartime need" (for
leg splints) and then adapting it "to make something elegant, light and
comfortable. Much copied but never bettered."
Herman Miller has been producing the Eames molded plywood chairs since they were
first designed in 1946. The magazine termed the S-1 steam locomotive and the
Swatch watch as runners-up in the design category.
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Molded plywood side chair |
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1535 North Routledge Park, London, ON, N6H 5L6
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519-471-8816 Fax: 519-471-1418
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