Description
eames Molded Plastic Side Chair(DSR chair)
fibreglass, pp or pc seat
stainless steel, powder coating steel or chromed steel base
different color available
Item NO; BL***7
different color available
Charles Eames, born ***7 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied
architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and opened his
own office together with Charles M. Gray in ***0. In ***5 he
founded another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After
receiving a fellowship in ***8 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art,
he moved to Michigan and assumed a teaching position in the design
department the following year. In ***0, he and Eero Saarinen won
first prize for their joint entry in the competition "Organic
Design in Home Furnishings" organized by the New York Museum of
Modern Art. During the same year, Eames became head of the
department of industrial design at Cranbrook, and in ***1 he
married Ray Kaiser.
Charles & Ray Eames designed and developed stretchers and leg
splints made of moulded plywood between ******3, and showed an
exhibition of experimental moulded plywood furniture at the New
York Museum of Modern Art in ***6. The Herman Miller Company in
Zeeland, Michigan, subsequently began to produce the Eameses'
furniture designs. In ***8, Charles and Ray Eames participated in
the "Low-Cost Furniture Competition" at MoMA, and in ***9 they
built their Case Study houses. Around ***5 they began to focus more
on their extensive work as photographers and filmmakers, and in
***4 an honorary doctoral degree from the Pratt Institute (New
York) highlighted Charles’ achievements.
