About This Artwork

Designed by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
American, 1907-1978 and 1912-1988
Made by Evans Products Company for Herman Miller Furniture Co.

Lounge Chair Wood (LCW), 1947/49

Molded and bent birch plywood, and rubber
67.9 x 56.5 x 57.2 cm (26 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
Paper label: cannot be typed out--see department file for inscription information
Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson, 1970.1049

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M.Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 71, 79-82, cat. 22.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 160.