La Chaise
In 1948, Charles and Ray Eames submitted a prototype to the Museum of Modern Art's International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. The piece was never produced then. It took forty-two years for the world to catch up.
Vitra brought the La Chaise into production in 1990, realizing the design with two thin molded fiberglass shells bonded together into a single, continuous form. The base, a composition of chrome-finished steel rods rising from natural oak feet, holds the shell at an angle that feels simultaneously suspended and grounded.
The chair's name honors the French-American sculptor Gaston Lachaise, whose bronze figures share the same swelling, organic confidence. That reference is not decorative. It defines the design's ambition: a lounge chair conceived not from ergonomic data, but from the logic of sculpture.
- Twin molded fiberglass shells, bonded and finished as one form
- Base of chrome-finished steel rods on natural oak feet
- Originally prototyped for the 1948 MoMA design competition
- Produced by Vitra beginning in 1990
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La Chaise
In 1948, Charles and Ray Eames submitted a prototype to the Museum of Modern Art's International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. The piece was never produced then. It took forty-two years for the world to catch up.
Vitra brought the La Chaise into production in 1990, realizing the design with two thin molded fiberglass shells bonded together into a single, continuous form. The base, a composition of chrome-finished steel rods rising from natural oak feet, holds the shell at an angle that feels simultaneously suspended and grounded.
The chair's name honors the French-American sculptor Gaston Lachaise, whose bronze figures share the same swelling, organic confidence. That reference is not decorative. It defines the design's ambition: a lounge chair conceived not from ergonomic data, but from the logic of sculpture.
- Twin molded fiberglass shells, bonded and finished as one form
- Base of chrome-finished steel rods on natural oak feet
- Originally prototyped for the 1948 MoMA design competition
- Produced by Vitra beginning in 1990
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In 1948, Charles and Ray Eames submitted a prototype to the Museum of Modern Art's International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. The piece was never produced then. It took forty-two years for the world to catch up.
Vitra brought the La Chaise into production in 1990, realizing the design with two thin molded fiberglass shells bonded together into a single, continuous form. The base, a composition of chrome-finished steel rods rising from natural oak feet, holds the shell at an angle that feels simultaneously suspended and grounded.
The chair's name honors the French-American sculptor Gaston Lachaise, whose bronze figures share the same swelling, organic confidence. That reference is not decorative. It defines the design's ambition: a lounge chair conceived not from ergonomic data, but from the logic of sculpture.
- Twin molded fiberglass shells, bonded and finished as one form
- Base of chrome-finished steel rods on natural oak feet
- Originally prototyped for the 1948 MoMA design competition
- Produced by Vitra beginning in 1990
