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Eames Plastic Armchair
Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

The DAW Eames Plastic Armchair - Dining Armchair Wood base - belongs to the Eames Plastic family designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1950. With the new molded polypropylene models, in addition to the reinvented fiber glass versions, Vitra has improved its robustness, elasticity and comfort.

The armchair is available in 4 versions, using a same shell shape – the DAW with wooden base, the DAR with the Eiffel base, the DAX with a single tubular base and the RAR rocking chair.

Shell polypropylene

Dimensions H83 x W62.5 x D60cm – Seat height 43cm

Ecological Information

DSW Chairs with a golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
poppy red shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
cotton white shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
pebble shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
deep black shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
lemon shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
emerald green shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
ice grey shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
mustard shell
golden maple base

DAW Armchair
rusty orange shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
light grey shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
pale rose shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
forest green shell
golden maple base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchair
granite grey shell
golden maple base

DAW Armchair
sea blue shell
golden maple base

DAW Armchairs with other types of base

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

DAW Armchairs
dark maple base

DAW Armchairs
ash honey tone base

DAW Armchairs
black maple base

Add optional upholstery for DSW Chairs

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

+ fixed seat cushion

+ front upholstery

Hopsak fabric

100 % polyamide | 550 gr/m2

Hopsak is an expressive, flat plain-weave fabric made of polyamide. The duotone colours offer a multitude of design possibilities in high-contrast, brightly hued or subtle combinations of warp and weft threads. Highly durable and robust, Hopsak can be used in private interiors as well as public areas.

DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair  Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

Other cushion options

 Zebra seat cushion
Aino et Alvar Aalto
Artek

Charles & Ray Eames

Charles & Ray Eames

Charles Eames, born 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and opened his own office together with Charles M. Gray in 1930. In 1935 he founded another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After receiving a fellowship in 1938 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he moved to Michigan and assumed a teaching position in the design department the following year. In 1940, he and Eero Saarinen won first prize for their joint entry in the competition "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. During the same year, Eames became head of the department of industrial design at Cranbrook.

Ray Eames, born Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, was born in Sacramento, California in 1912. She attended the May Friend Bennet School in Millbrook, New York, and continued her studies in painting under Hans Hofmann through 1937. During this year she exhibited her work in the first exhibition of the American Abstract Artists group at the Riverside Museum in New York. She matriculated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940.

Charles and Ray Eames got married in 1941 and moved to Los Angeles, where together they began experimenting with techniques for the three-dimensional moulding of plywood. The aim was to create comfortable chairs that were affordable. However, the war interrupted their work, and Charles and Ray turned instead to the design and development of leg splints made of plywood, which were manufactured in large quantities for the US Navy. In 1946, they exhibited their experimental furniture designs at MoMA. The Herman Miller Company in Zeeland, Michigan, subsequently began to produce Eames furniture. Charles and Ray participated in the 1948 'Low-Cost Furniture' competition at MoMA, and they built the Eames House in 1949 as their own private residence. In addition to their work in furniture design and architecture, they also regularly turned their hand to graphic design, photography, film and exhibition design.

In 1957 Vitra signed a licence agreement with Herman Miller and began producing the Eames' designs for Europe and the Middle East. Charles and Ray Eames have had a profound and lasting influence on Vitra. It was the encounter with their work that spurred the company's beginnings as a furniture manufacturer. Yet it is not just the products of Charles and Ray Eames that have left a mark on Vitra. Even today, their design philosophy continues to significantly shape the company's values, orientation and goals.