Vitra - Plywood Mobile black - model A

Vitra Plywood Mobiles.

The Plywood Mobiles were designed by Charles and Ray Eames in the early 1940s.

The experiments of the Eameses led to these organic shapes that playfully revolved around each other and that the Eameses hung from their ceilings like mobiles in their home.

Unusual and striking is the material used here - Aircraft plywood. This material is particularly robust and lightweight. It thus gives the mobile stability and at the same time the necessary lightness. Whether you hang it as a solo piece in your home or as an ensemble, with the Plywood Mobiles you can bring a little piece of design history to your home.

The Plywood Mobiles are also reminiscent of Ray Eames' artwork and images.

Material : Lacquered plywood
Colour black
Dimensions: Width 32 cm, Height 40 cm.

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 her future wife Ray, and the couple married in 1941.