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Office Chair
ALUMINIUM GROUP EA 108 visitor Black
VITRA
€2,724.00
€2,270.00 HT
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Office Chair
ALUMINIUM GROUP EA 108 visitor Black
VITRA
ALUMINIUM GROUP EA 108 visitor Black
€2,724.00
€2,270.00 HT
€2,724.00
€2,270.00 HT
Description
The Charles & Ray Eames Aluminium Chair for Vitra is a true design icon in the world of swivel chairs. It adapts to the shape of the user's body and ensures high levels of comfort. The Aluminium Chair has been a classic for over fifty years, infusing modern elegance into spaces around the world.The black Hopsack fabric upholstery is cleverly tensioned thanks to a clever combination of metals, making it an effective load-bearing element within the frame. The frame itself is made of chrome die-cast aluminium and has a four-pointed base. The Aluminium Chair ensures optimal comfort thanks to lines that hug the body and its fine, high-frequency welded upholstery. This chair combines strict function, technique, human anatomy and mechanical rationality. The exceptional production quality of this armchair now comes with a 30-year guarantee from the brand: the authenticity of this design classic speaks for itself.
When he died at the age of 71 in 1978 in St Louis, his home town, Charles Eames embodied one of the major figures of 20th century design, which he was able to steer towards mass production. Trained as an architect, in 1940 he won 1st prize with Eero Saarinen in the Moma organic design competition in New York, which led to him teaching industrial design at Cranbrook Academy, where he met his wife Ray, who studied painting there. Charles and Ray Eames married in 1941 and moved to Los Angeles, where they began experimenting together with three-dimensional plywood moulding techniques. The aim was to create comfortable and affordable chairs. Innovative plywood splints and stretchers for the US Army led them to develop this technology, the furniture for which was produced by Herman Miller (1946), then Vitra (1957). In 1948, Charles and Ray Eames entered MoMA's "Low-Cost Furniture" competition, and in 1949 they created the Eames House as their private residence. Their Eames Lounge Chair has sold over 6 million units since its creation in 1956, while the Aluminium Chair (having initiated the Aluminium group in 1958) and the swivel armchair with its Soft Pad footrest (1969) continue to appeal to design enthusiasts and even enjoy a 30-year guarantee! In addition to their work in furniture design and architecture, Charles and Ray Eames also regularly dabbled in graphic design, photography, film-making, and exhibitions. For Vitra, the encounter with Charles and Ray Eames was of fundamental importance. The company's history as a furniture manufacturer began with the production of their designs in 1957. But it's not just their products that the design duo are making their mark on Vitra. In fact, their conception of design still defines the values and direction of the company to this day. To this day, the design philosophy of Charles and Ray Eames continues to notably determine the values, direction, and goals of Vitra. This decisive influence can be seen most clearly in the question that always arises at Vitra when it comes to making important design decisions: what would Charles and Ray say? During their life together, the couple gave their answers on trips to Europe and on return visits to California. In the Eames House, we can find many items brought back from trips, such as the Eames House Bird.
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VITRA
Vitra was founded in 1950 by Willi Fehlbaum. Designer furniture company Vitra is located near Basel, Switzerland. Vitra grew in 1981 and launched a number of subsidiaries around the world. Vitra’s mission is to develop healthy, intelligent and sustainable solutions for communities and housing. Vitra’s technical know-how is combined with the creativity of renowned designers such as Alexander Girard, Charles & Ray Eames who designed some the greatest classics of the 20th century, Verner Panton, and the Bouroullec brothers. Vitra pieces are created by designers from around the world.