Original Eames Rocking Chair
When the original eames office and zenith plastics colluded to produce the eames rar rocking chair in 1950 few could have predicted its enduring popularity and rise to design.
Original eames rocking chair. The rar or rocking armchair rod is a classic modernist chair designed in 1948 by charles eames. Herman miller currently offers the eames lounge chair and ottoman in a variety of leather colors with coordinating woods for the shell. Really like the fiberglass look more than the plastic molded look. Vitra a swiss maker of modern style furniture was authorized to produce the furniture using the original eames specifications to distribute overseas.
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Eames molded plastic armchair rocker base is tested to hold up to 300lbs. The famous eames rocking r arm a chair on rod r base abbreviated to rar was one of the original 5 released in 1950 and remains a firm favorite with collectors and home owners all these years later. The eames lounge chair and ottoman was the third and in our opinion greatest and last of the three designs that forged the reputation of the eames chair no ordinary chairs indeed. Everyone wanted to be seen with the eames lounge chair ottoman including this well known double page advert for this major brand in the 1950 s.
The prototype was designed for the museum of modern art s moma international competition for low cost furniture design in 1948 where it won first prize. For a more luxurious lounge chair the eameses created the eames lounge chair and ottoman set.