Eames® Molded Plywood Coffee Table and Lounge Chairs

Designed by Charles and Ray Eames
Discovery often takes interesting turns. Consider the shapes Charles and Ray Eames made plywood take. Experimenting in the 1940s with thin sheets of wood veneer formed under heat and pressure, they adapted this new technology and designed a truly comfortable chair and a stylish coffee table that are suitable for businesses and homes.

It’s an achievement others have noticed — Time Magazine named the Molded Plywood Chair the Best Design of the 20th Century. A coordinating coffee table completes an ideal lounge or living room set.

The Design:

• In the early 1940s, when Charles Eames was working on MGM set designs, he would return to the small apartment where he and his wife, Ray, were experimenting with wood-molding techniques that would have profound effects on the design world. Their discoveries led to a commission from the U.S. Navy in 1942 to develop plywood splints, stretchers, and glider shells molded under heat and pressure.
  
  
• After World War II, they adapted the technology to create inexpensive, high-quality chairs that could be mass-produced. The process eliminated the extraneous wood needed to connect the seat with the back, which reduced the weight and visual profile of the chair and established a basis for modern furniture design. The Molded Plywood Chair is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
  
  
• Charles and Ray Eames applied the same breakthrough process to create their classic Molded Plywood Coffee Table. This classic table's top and legs are shaped by molding thin wood veneers under heat and pressure - the same breakthrough process Charles and Ray Eames used to create their Molded Plywood Chairs.
  
  
• The coffee table first came to Herman Miller's attention when George Nelson, design director, saw it and other Eames molded plywood products at a showing in the Barclay Hotel in New York City in the mid-1940s. Nelson contacted the Eameses and soon afterward, they were designing for Herman Miller. First offered by Herman Miller in 1946, these imaginative tables are an enduring landmark of modern, functional design.

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