Lounge Chair and Ottoman

Architecture and Design

1956

Charles Eames (American, 1907–1978)
Ray Eames (American, 1912–1988)
Made by Herman Miller Furniture Co.
Zeeland, Michigan, founded 1905
(note: Herman Miller Furn. Co. became Herman Miller Inc. in 1960)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artists: Charles Eames , Ray Eames , Herman Miller Furniture Company (Manufacturer)
Title: Lounge Chair and Ottoman
Places: Zeeland (Object made in:), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: 1956
Medium: Rosewood, leather and aluminum
Dimensions: Chair: 83.8 × 85.7 × 81.3 cm (33 × 33 3/4 × 32 in.); Ottoman: 62.9 × 45.1 × 54 cm (24 3/4 × 17 × 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Victor Figueroa
Reference Number: 2000.128.1-2

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 71, 79–82, 92, cat. 22.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of CHicago, From World War I to 1955, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 164.

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