design icon | eames molded plastic chair

You may have noticed that the last two posts contained a similar chair to the one on my banner. These are all different models of one of my all time favourite chairs, the Eames molded plastic chair. Designed from 1948-1950 by Ray and Charles Eames, these molded plastic chairs were a result of failed and limited designs using plywood. They partnered with Zenith plastics to create both the stackable chair and the armchair from formed fibreglass, one of the first bare plastic shell chairs to be mass-produced. Base options vary from the Eiffel metal base, to a wood doweled base, a rocking base and a basis metal frame. The blue miniature model in my banner you may recall was a souvenir I brought back from the National Building Museum in Washington DC.

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