After the huge success obtained with the Molded Fiberglass and Plywood chairs, in the early 50s Charles and Ray Eames designed a chair that will become a Mid-Century design classic: the Eames Wire Chair.
The transparency of this single-piece seat proposes a sculptural quality rarely seen in postwar furniture design. The influence of fine art is often considered secondary to the industrial processes and ideology of systems favoured by Charles and Ray Eames. however, in this instance, the piece’s artistic value combines with its industrial process to achieve its landmark status. The artistic input of Ray Eames is married with the more engineering sensibilities provided by Charles to create a design of balanced values from both disciplines.
The Wire Chair falls within a series of wire-based designs and is closely related to earlier fibreglass side-chairs, such as the DAR (1948) and the DSR (1950). Although its outline is almost identical to the shell of the DSR and other models from this range, the wire Chair is characterized by quite a different technology. The Wire Chair is symbolic of the success of the couple’s design philosophy.
The organic form offers comfort without the need for upholstery, although the chair readily accepted seat or back pads, which also create a beautiful pattern. It is a design that may be translated via interchangeable range bases, to suit a wide variety of applications. The most iconic of these bases is the ‘Eiffel Tower’ base, which creates a dramatic vision of fine cross-hatching of chrome or black steel.
There’s still some debate about the resemblance between the Wire chair and the Bertoia’s Diamond chair for Knoll. Without any doubt the American mechanical patent for the futuristic Wire chair has been assigned first.
The Eameses undoubtedly led the postwar design era, advocating the organic Modernism with their sculptural, unique products designed to be mass-produced thanks to new technologies; thanks to them, Herman Miller become the leader in the home and office furniture. The Wire chair was an immediate successful and proved to be timeless.
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