Lounge Chair (model LCW)

Architecture and Design

designed 1945; made 1946/49

Charles Eames (American, 1907–1978)
Ray Eames (American, 1912–1988)
Made by Evans Products Company for Herman Miller Furniture Co.
Grand Haven, Michigan, 20th century, and 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 , Herman Miller Furniture Company (Manufacturer) , Ray Eames , Evans Products Company (Manufacturer)
Title: Lounge Chair (model LCW), Side Chair (LCW), Lounge Chair Wood (LCW)
Places: United States (Artist's nationality:), Plymouth (Object made in)
Date: 1945-1949
Medium: Molded plywood and rubber
Dimensions: 67.9 × 56.5 × 57.2 cm (26 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 22 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson
Reference Number: 1970.1049

Jennifer M.Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 71, 79–82, 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. 160.

Art Institute of Chicago, Design Episodes: The Modern Chair, Apr 23–Oct 2, 2016 (no cat.).

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