Vitra - Organic Conference Chair black ash

Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen created the Organic Chair in 1940 as part of their project for the competition 'Organic Design in Home Furnishings', organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
This small reading chair offers exceptional comfort thanks to its comfortable padded shell with biomorphic shape.

Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen

Charles Eames, born 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and opened his own studio with Charles M. Gray in 1930. In 1935 he opened another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After receiving a scholarship from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1938, he moved to Michigan and in the following years earned a professorship in the design department. In 1940 Eames was appointed director of the industrial design department at Cranbrook.

Eero Saarinen, born 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland, son of architect Eliel Saarinen, studied sculpture in 1929 and 1930 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, He then studied architecture at Yale University in New Haven until 1934. A Yale scholarship allowed him to travel to Europe. In 1936 he returned to the United States, collaborated with his father’s studio, and taught at Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills. It was there that Eero Saarinen met Charles Eames. Together they experimented with new forms for furniture and realized the first projects for furniture made of moulded plywood.

Vitra

Vitra is a Swiss company that produces furniture and interior design. Known for producing the works of important designers and architects.The headquarters are located in Weil am Rhein, Germany, where the famous Vitra Design Museum is also located.This story starts in the post-war years, when two Americans, both architects, Charles and Ray Eames, decided to help a furniture dealer.The collaboration led them to design and then produce masterpieces for interior design, which are still very current today.