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Introduced in 1956, the Eames Lounge Chair was designed by Charles and Ray Eames and is made of molded plywood and leather. It was the first chair the Eameses designed for the high-end market. The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. [1]
Tulip chair (designed 1955–56) by Eero Saarinen. The mid-century modern movement in the U.S. was an American reflection of the International and Bauhaus movements, including the works of Gropius, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. [4]
The material of the chair, Zenaloy, which is polyester reinforced with fiberglass, was first developed by the US Army during World War II. [4] Using this material, Ray and Charles Eames designed a prototype chair for the 1948 ‘International Competition of Low-Cost Furniture Design’ held by the Museum of Modern Art.
The modern club chair is based upon the club chairs used by the popular and fashionable urban gentlemen's clubs of 1850s England. Cockfighting chair, an 18th-century chair for libraries where the seat and arms were shaped so that a reader could sit astride to use a small desk attached to the back. [16]
The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956 [1] for the Knoll company of New York City. [2] The designs were initially entitled the 'Pedestal Group' before Saarinen and Knoll settled on the more organic sounding 'Tulip chair' to mirror its inspiration from nature. [ 3 ]
Butler, Cornelia and Alexandra Schwartz eds. Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, 220–224. New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Caplan, Ralph, "Connections: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames". Los Angeles: UCLA, 1976. Rago, David and John Sollo. Collecting Modern: a guide to mid-century furniture and collectibles. Gibbs ...
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