Image source: Herman Miller — Eames Executive Chairs
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Eames Executive Chairs
The 1960 Eames Executive Chair for the Time & Life Building, in leather on an aluminum base.
673 × 953 mm
1960
Approx. $6,500 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Eames Executive Chair, also called the Time-Life chair, is an upholstered work chair created by Charles and Ray Eames in 1960 and produced by Herman Miller since then.
Construction
A lightweight aluminum frame and base with leather or fabric upholstery, covered buttons and a 4-1/2-inch seat cushion; it has an adjustable seat height, a tilt-swivel mechanism and a five-star base with casters or glides.
Specifications
The chair is 26.5 in wide and up to 37.5 in high with casters, with the height adjustable by 1.5 in.
Story
The Time-Life chair
Herman Miller's design-story page says Henry Luce, chair of Time-Life, asked the Eames design team for a chair for his new building a year after the 1959 Moscow exhibition, and that the Eameses responded with the chair Herman Miller has produced since 1960.
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Making headlines
The page recalls that in 1972 Bobby Fischer included the chair among his demands for the world championship match in Iceland, and that Boris Spassky then asked for one too.
More by Charles and Ray Eames
Occasional Table LTR
Eames low occasional table of 1950 with a steel-wire rod base and wood, HPL, linoleum or marble top.
Soft Pad Chair EA 223
Eames stool for the EA 222 lounge chair, with a sewn-on cushion and an aluminium base, 1969.
Plywood Group DCW
Eames' Dining Chair Wood: made entirely of moulded plywood, 1945/1946.
Eames Chaise
The 1968 Eames Chaise, an 18-inch-wide leather chaise on a die-cast aluminum frame.
Collection
Eames Collection
The Eames Collection at Herman Miller: molded plywood chairs (1946), molded plastic chairs, Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, storage units and Hang-It-All.
