Description

eames rocking chair
fibreglass, pp or pc seat
stainless steel/chromed steel/powder coating steel base
different color 
Item No: BL***1

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.