The Eames Lounge Chair: an icon of modern design

Charles and Ray Eames’s leather-upholstered rosewood-veneered chair and matching ottoman, launched in 1956, is a twentieth century design classic. Its’ fiftieth anniversary is celebrated in this publication, their contributions to design have been explored in publications and popular forums to such a degree that their names are nearly synonymous with mid-twentieth-century modernism, but it is nonetheless surprising to find a book dedicated to single work of theirs, notably a manufactured lounge chair that remains in production to the present day. HCDJ