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Home > Chairs + Sofas + Stools, etc. > Office Chairs > Executive Chairs > Eames Style High Back Executive Chair     << prev     next >>     Save to my image gallery

Eames Style High Back Executive Chair Materials: 100% Imported Italian Leather chair in your choice of Apple Green, Coffee, Ivory, Red, or White colors. Includes an armrest, polished chrome aluminum frame and base. The designer was born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri and briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. He proposed studying Frank Lloyd Wright to his professors, and when he would not cease his interest in modern architects, he was dismissed from the university. In the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a professor wrote the comment, "His views were too modern." After he left school and was married, he began his own architectural practice with partners Charles Gray, and later Walter Pauley. One great influence on him was the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, he moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine "Case Study" program, the team designed and built the groundbreaking Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and constructed entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture. In the 1950s, the pair of designers would continue their work in architecture and modern furniture design, often (like in the earlier molded plywood work) pioneering innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. Their offices operated for more than four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, and included a number of remarkable designers, like Don Albinson and Deborah Sussman. Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Lounge Chair (1956), the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder, as well as molded plywood leg splints for the US Navy, the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy experiment, and a number of toys. Dimensions: 21.5" W X 26"D X 40-43" H 18-21 SH This is not a Herman Miller Eames chair. Item #: EAMES-STYLE-EXECUTIVE-CHAIR-HI-BACK Regular Price: $2,195.00Sale Price: $995.00 Colors: BlackWhiteApple Green(+99.00) Frame-Color: Brushed AluminumChrome-Finish(+$75) Per-Item Shipping Method: Ground (+149) Qty: currency converter (on/off)