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- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, consists of a molded plastic shell which sits on a polished aluminum base with four legs. The shell is padded and covered with green vinyl upholstery and edged with black vinyl. This object was designed for Braniff Airlines lobby and has a price history of $144 to $153. Herman Miller Trade Name: 66306 Chair Herman Miller Series: The Girard Group Product Number: 66353
- Date Issued:
- [1966 TO 1967]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Grand Rapids Art Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford, consists of a padded bentwood maple frame with birch base. The seat and backrest are covered with dark green leatherette upholstery.
There is a cover and style upholstery tag attached to the chair which reads "Sold By DJ Depree. "
Price History: 1936: $ 6. 75 (muslin) wholesale; 1942: $20. 00 retail Herman Miller Trade Name: Side Chair Herman Miller Series: Modern Product Number: 3665
- Date Issued:
- [1936 TO 1942]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- These Side Chairs, in the collection of The Henry Ford, are made of a black and white girard check padded upholstery (nilo 95) with black vinyl edge and white plastic backs that covers the seat and back rest. The base consists of a frame and four legs made of polished chrome plate and white nylon glides. black rubber mounts are attached to the frame as well.
These pieces are also referred to as Eames One Twenty Seven Chairs.
Price History: 1970: $31. 00 (nilo); $ 32. 00 (naug); $ 36. 00 (hopsk) [Product Literature 89. 177. 975] 1989: $274. 00-$ 334. 00 according to upholstery [Product Literature 89. 177. 70]Herman Miller Trade Name: Eames Upholstered Chair Product Number: EC 127
- Date Issued:
- [1970 TO 1991]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford, has a molded plywood seat and back. Light oak veneer covers the molded plywood. The seat and back are attached by black rubber shock mounts to a molded plywood frame with metal glides. The rubber shock mounts permit the chair to flex readily to changes in position.
Trade Catalog States:
Product Name: Molded plywood lounge chair
Series Name: Eames chairs
Popular Name: Potato chip chair
Standard Finish: birch, walnut, calico ash, red, black
Standard Upholstery: leather, slunk skin(unborn calf in brown & white or black & white; after 1955 in ash & walnut only
Standard configuration: up to 1955 with wood or metal legs; after 1955 wood legs only
Incorporating revolutionary principles in both design and construction, the molded plywood chairs designed by Charles Eames have been called "the most famous chairs in America. " The chairs are resin impregnated during the molding process so that the finish becomes an integral part of the wood. [Source: ca. 1949 and ca. 1952 Herman Miller, Inc. Trade Catalogs. ]
The chair also has the popular nickname of "Potato Chip Chair. "
Price History: 1947: $ 17. 85 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 688) 1957: $ 66. 00 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 660Herman Miller Trade Name: Molded Plywood Lounge Chair Herman Miller Series: Eames Chair Product Number: LCW
- Date Issued:
- [1947 TO 1957]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California, is made of molded plywood which sits on a chrome-plated metal base. There is a black veneer which covers the seat and backrest. Herman Miller Trade Name: Molded Plywood Chair Herman Miller Series: Eames Chairs Product Number: DCM
- Date Issued:
- 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Oakland Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Bentwood Chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford, consists of a circular wood seat padded and covered with pink, yellow and orange girard fabric. This back and frame are constructed of bent birch wood.
This chair is also known by the nickname 'Pretzel Chair'.
Price History: 1958: $67. 00Herman Miller Trade Name: Laminated Wood Side Chair Product Number: 5890-1
- Date Issued:
- [1958 TO 1960]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Molded Plastic Armchair, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, consists of a parchment molded fiberglass shell which sits on a bright zinc wire base. Herman Miller Trade Name: Zenaloy Chair Herman Miller Series: Molded Plastic Armchairs Product Number: LAR
- Date Issued:
- [1950 TO 1967]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, consists of a tan vinyl upholstered seat and back which sits on a stainless steel base. This chair design was awarded the grand prize at the 1957 X1 Triennale, Milan, Italy. Herman Miller Trade Name: Chair Herman Miller Series: Kjaerholm Collection Product Number: KC 022
- Date Issued:
- [1973 TO 1977]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of the Cranbrook Art Museum, consists of an elephant hide gray fiberglass shell which sits on a wire frame base. The frame is painted black and rests on glides. Herman Miller Trade Name: Side Chair Herman Miller Series: Fiberglass Reinforced Side and Armchairs Product Number: DSR
- Date Issued:
- [1954 TO 1968]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair, in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, consists of a bright plated wire leg frame with an upholstered backrest and seat over a black wire shell. The seat is covered with black naugahyde and has a removable cushion. Price Range varies with fabric, $24. 75-$36. 55. Herman Miller Trade Name: Upholstered Wire Chair with Upholstery Herman Miller Series: Eames Chairs Product Number: DKR 1
- Date Issued:
- [1953 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection