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Organic Chair

Designed by: Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames
Made by: Vitra
More Info: vitra.com

This vaunted design was created for the 1940 MoMA exhibition “Organic Design in Home Furnishings.” The chair, which was the first to mold wood into complex curvatures and use the cycle-welding technique of bonding rubber to wood, won first prize at the show and would have been produced by Heywood-Wakefield had the war not intervened. The chair was finally mass produced by Vitra in 2006.

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mss bens07.07.2010

There is no doubt that Eames was the founder of modern classics furniture.His first major design the organic chair with Saarinen was the starting point of breaking from the traditional heavy woods and classic designs into new technologies and materials which symbolise the lightness and the elegance of modern classics furniture pieces and designs.

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