Organic Chair
Made by Vitra
Designed by Charles & Ray Eames
In 1940, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen entered MoMA's Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition with a chair that had no precedent. Its continuous, curved shell followed the body's contours without the structural interruptions common to furniture of the period. They won. And the design remained ahead of its moment for decades.
Vitra's reissue returns the Organic Chair to production with the same sculptural fidelity that defined the original. The shell form, upholstered fully and without exposed frame, reads as a single gesture. It anticipates what would later become the dominant language of postwar design: the body as the starting point, not an afterthought.
- Originally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940
- Collaboration between Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen
- Fully upholstered ergonomic shell on a solid wood base
- Produced by Vitra as an authorized reissue
The Organic Chair occupies a specific position in design history: a work that proposed a new relationship between furniture and the human form, at a moment when that idea was genuinely radical.
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