LCW: 'Lounge chair wood'
Ref: 1745
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Designers / Maker / Retailer
Designed by Charles Eames (1907-78) and Ray Eames (1912-88)
Manufactured by Evans Products Company
Retailed by Herman Miller
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Detail
Compression-moulded plywood, with hardwood veneer (and traces of red pigment); rubber, and steel screws
67 x 56 x 61 cm
American (Venice, California), designed 1945-46, manufactured circa 1947-49
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Collection
Private collection
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Notes
For a helpful discussion on the evolution and dating of the ubiquitous and iconic LCW, see Mel Buchanan, ‘From Museum Storage-Beneath a Ray and Charles Eames LCW Chair’, Milwaukee Art Museum Blog, 7 November 2011 (on line: https://blog.mam.org/2011/10/07/from-museum-storage-beneath-a-ray-and-charles-eames-lcw-chair/).