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[Plywood chairs, sketches of various views] – Historic Print

[Plywood chairs, sketches of various views], [between 1945 and 1950] — historic drawing
[Plywood chairs, sketches of various views], [between 1945 and 1950]. Historic drawing from the Music & Dance collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Plywood chairs, sketches of various views]

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Several views of a molded plywood chair fill this India ink drawing, which dates to roughly 1945 to 1950, when Charles and Ray Eames were developing bent-plywood seating. Their work drew on wartime advances in molding wood, and in 1946 their designs won a Museum of Modern Art competition for low-cost furniture. The sketches show how a single form was studied from different angles while the design was still being refined. The record identifies the subject as Eames chairs but does not name the specific model.

Created / published[between 1945 and 1950]
Medium1 drawing : India ink.
GenreInk drawings 1940-1950.
NotesUnprocessed in PR 13 CN 1989:150. Conservation control no. 8.95.835.338.
SubjectsEames chairs--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,423 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218772

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