La Chaise (seating)
La Chaise is a piece of seating furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1948 that is reminiscent of the shape of a chaise longue . The Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra , which also produces other Eames designs, has been producing the design in series since 1991 .
For a competition held by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the two designers were inspired by the sculpture "Floating Figure" by the sculptor Gaston Lachaise and the work of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore . The piece of furniture was the couple's contribution to the Inexpensive Design Contest, shown at the 1949 Modern Living Exhibition at MoMA. Since then, La Chaise has been included in the museum's fund and exhibited in the furniture design department. Other museums with product design exhibitions like the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague also exhibit La Chaise.
The Eames calculated that the seat shell would cost $ 15 to produce and the substructure would cost $ 12. At that time, other designs by the designers were selected for series production. When series production of the La Chaise began in the 1990s after the deaths of both designers, the sales prices were much higher.
The curved, white lacquered fiberglass seat shell with a round recess in the middle rests on five feet made of chrome-plated steel wire, which end in an oak cross. The construction is 87 cm high, 150 cm wide and 90 cm deep. The Eames prototype was made of hard rubber, not fiberglass.
The United States Postal Service issued a special stamp series in 2008 in honor of Charles and Ray Eames. La Chaise was featured on one of these stamps.
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- ↑ Pat Kirkham: Charles and Ray Eames: designers of the twentieth century , 2001, MIT-Press, ISBN 9780262611398 , p. 234
- ↑ Postal Service Previews 2008 Stamps ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
