French advertisement for chair designed by Harry Bertoia, 1950s.
Ice Cube recreates an old Eames photo for the forthcoming Ice Cube Celebrates Eames, via
Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer & Time Life Lobby Chair via:
Chess grand master Bobby Fischer specifically requested the Time Life Lobby Chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames while he competed in the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik In 1972. He said he could concentrate well in the chair. When his opponent Boris Spaasky saw it, he refused to play until he got one too.
Eero Saarinen, Tulip Chair ads via:
‘The undercarriage of chairs…in an interior makes an ugly, confusing unrestful world,’ wrote Saarinen. ‘I wanted to clear up the slum of legs’
Herman Miller ad published in Arts & Architecture magazine in May 1960 via
A 1957 ad for the Quadreflex speaker designed by the Eames’. Not only is the speaker design mind blowing, but look at that ad! Could have done without the creepy cat though.
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Above: a c.1962 Otl Aicher (HfG) advert featuring the Herman Miller Aluminum Group Chair, designed by Charles and Ray Eames with photography by Wolfgang Sol.
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