Image source: Herman Miller — Eames Wire Chairs
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Eames Wire Chairs
The Eames welded-wire shell chair, produced from 1951 to 1967 and reintroduced in 2001.
483 × 794 mm
1951
Official product information
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Description
Overview
The Eames Wire Chair is a welded-wire side chair by Charles and Ray Eames, made by Herman Miller. It was produced from 1951 to 1967 and reintroduced in 2001.
Construction
A bent and welded wire shell on a wire, 4-leg or dowel base, left bare or fitted with an optional one-piece seat pad or a crisscross two-piece "bikini" pad.
Specifications
Wire base, wire shell, price-book drawing: 19 in and 31¼ in, neither labelled on the drawing; no depth is shown.
Story
From wire trays and baskets
Herman Miller's page says the Eames Office began experimenting with bent and welded wire in the 1950s, inspired by trays, dress forms and baskets. The wire version of the single-shell form was among the pieces that grew from this work.
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Produced and reintroduced
The product sheet says the chair was originally produced from 1951 to 1967 and reintroduced in 2001, and that the shell chair form was introduced in 1951.
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.
