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- 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 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 Side Chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford, is constructed of mahogany legs, crossbar, and carved backrest. The seat is padded and covered with cream-gold brocade upholstery with brass tacks along upholstery edge.
The designer of this piece is unknown but it's labeled "Sold by brink's book Store, Holland, Michigan. "Herman Miller Trade Name: Side Chair Herman Miller Series: Georgian Group, Chippendale Product Number: 3389
- Date Issued:
- 1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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, consists of a birch frame with dark wood legs and backrest supports. The seat and backrest are padded and covered with textured celery-gold upholstery.
Price History: 1936: $11. 50 (wholesale); $26. 00 (retail); 1939: $13. 50 (wholesale); $31. 00 (retail)Herman Miller Trade Name: Side Chair Herman Miller Series: Modern Product Number: 3322
- Date Issued:
- [1933 TO 1940]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Side Chair is part of a four matching chairs in the collection of The Henry Ford. The chairs are sturdily constructed of an unusual design with a wooden frame. They are padded with a foam rubber seat with natural fabric upholstery and have a backrest mode of natural colored cane. [Source: ca. 1948 Herman Miller, Inc. Trade Catalog]
Price History: 1950:$73. 00 (muslin) -14 fabric grades $75-$91 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 689) 1952:$76. 00 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 690)Herman Miller Trade Name: Side Chair, Natural Cane Back Product Number: 4669
- Date Issued:
- [1947 TO 1954]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- The two-piece blue leather upholstery pad reveals the basic black wire shell of this dining or desk chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford. The upholstery is padded with jute. [Source: 1954 Herman Miller, Inc. Trade Catalog. ]
See also, HMC. 198 which is housed at the Atlanta History Center. HMC. 198 is a match for this piece.
Price History: 1955: $ 47. 00 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 694) 1965: $ 74. 00 include fabric (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 717)Herman Miller Trade Name: Upholstered Wire Chair Herman Miller Series: Wire Chairs Product Number: DKX 2
- Date Issued:
- [1953 TO 1967]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection