Vitra - La Chaise lounge chair

Vitra La Chaise lounge chair.

The Vitra La Chaise has now become a real design icon. This chair was designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1948 for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with Gaston Lachaise's "Floating Figure" as inspiration.

In the early 1990s, Vitra started producing this design and the iconic lounge chair was added to the permanent collection. This unique chair is also an art object and will certainly become an "eye-catcher" in your interior.

The organic chair is designed in such a way that multiple positions can be assumed for wonderful relaxation. In addition, it is a timeless design that is also somewhat reminiscent of Dali-like shapes.

Materials used: Shell: polyurethane, painted white. Base: chrome-plated tubular steel.

Cross base: solid oak natural, varnished.

The measurements are; Width: 150 cm Depth: 90 cm Height: 150 cm Seat height: 49 cm.

This version of the La Chaise is available in white with an oak base.

About the designers:

Ray and Charles Eames were an American designer couple whose name is familiar to anyone interested 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 in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan.

There he met Eero Saarinen, with whom he took part in a competition called 'Organic Design in Home'. Furnishings”, organized by the MoMA in New York. Eames and Saarinen won the competition using a plywood molding technique originally developed by Alvar Aalto. It was also in Cranbrook that Charles Eames met her future wife Ray, and the couple married in 1941.