Eames Archives: The LCW - A New Furniture Design

Time Magazine branded the Eames LCW “The Chair of the Century,” and this year marks the 75th anniversary of the chair’s existence. Despite seeming superbly contemporary, one may not realize that today’s highly-coveted LCW has close ties with the end of WWII and that its legacy flourished from an early partnership with Herman Miller. Let’s explore the early moments of the LCW’s history, beginning in the winter of 1945 and the spring of 1946.
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Eames Archives: An Image as an Idea is a blog series written by Eames Office Photography Archivist, Kelsey Rose Williams, with the intention of sharing rarely-viewed images from the Eames Office archive and the untold narratives attached to them.