Lcw Chair Eames
The lcw also known as low chair wood or eames plywood lounge chair is considered an iconic design.
Lcw chair eames. The chair was designed using technology for molding plywood that the eames developed before and during the second world war. Much copied but never bettered. The eames lounge chair wood by charles and ray eames 1948. Lcw 1946 1953 1994 present time magazine called the lcw the chair of the century read more about it below in an excerpt from an eames primer by eames demetrios.
It dates from the period of charles and ray eames s early experiments with three dimensionally molded plywood. The eames experiments with molding plywood into organic forms yielded this design icon. Designed by charles eames and first manufactured by the evans molded plywood division the chair has long gained classic status. Hailed by time magazine as the best design of the 20th century the iconic lcw or lounge chair wood 1946 began as an experiment in the eameses apartment where they were molding plywood in what they called the kazam.