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Lobby Chair ES 105
Eames visitor chair with an extra-wide seat, a low base and leather cushions, 1960.
750 × 780 × 745 mm
1960
Official product information
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Description
Overview
Among the three Lobby Chairs, the ES 105 is the inviting visitor chair, the one with the extra-wide seat and the low base. Vitra credits Charles and Ray Eames, dates it 1960 and describes the group's cushions as luxuriously padded and covered in leather. The factbook files the model as a lounge chair.
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Construction
Frames and foot are aluminium: die-cast, chrome-plated side frames and a chrome-plated die-cast four-star base. The seat is fixed in height and swivels. Cushions are made of the recyclable polyurethane 'V-Foam' under leather, and the armrests are leather-upholstered.
Specifications
750 mm wide, 745 mm deep and 780 mm high. There are 16 Leather colours and 22 in Leather Premium F, and side frames and base are 01 chrome.
Story
The wide, low model
Vitra's page for the ES 105 describes a chair meant to be inviting. Its seat is extra wide and its base low, in contrast to the swivel office model with its adjustable height. The date given is 1960.
In the group
Like its two siblings, the ES 105 is built from three cushions joined by side frames of aluminium. Vitra says all three models give supreme comfort through their padded leather cushions, and that the leather covers can be had in many colours.
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
Lobby Chair
Vitra Lobby Chair by Charles and Ray Eames (1960): three cushions between aluminium side frames, as ES 104 swivel, ES 108 conference and ES 105 lounge.
