Vitra - Eames Dal Armchair, La Fonda Base

Vitra Eames Dal Armchair.

The base for the DAL chair (Dining Height Armchair La Fonda Base) was developed in 1961 by Charles and Ray Eames for the legendary New York restaurant La Fonda del Sol, whose interior was designed by their friend Alexander Girard.

With its central pedestal made up of four parallel axes that split at the bottom to form a four star base, it is one of the most elegant and unconventional pedestals ever designed by the Eames's.

These plastic variants have been produced since the 1990s. In contrast to the traditional Fiberglass chairs, the Plastic Chairs are made of polypropylene colored through and through, which makes the shell of the Eames Plastic Chairs a bit more flexible and has a beautiful deep color.

the designers,

Ray and Charles Eames were an American designer couple whose name is known to anyone with an interest in modern design. Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied architecture at the University of Washington and, at the invitation of the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, continued his studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan in 1940. There he met Eero Saarinen, with whom he entered a competition called " Organic Design in Home Decor" organized by MoMA in New York. Eames and Saarinen won the competition using a plywood molding technique originally developed by Alvar Aalto. In Cranbrook, Charles Eames also met his future wife Ray, and the couple married in 1941.