The Eames Aluminum Chairs in the Home

The Eames Aluminum Chair Group In the Home

The aluminum series of chairs from Herman Miller all have very defining names. The lounge chair, the executive chair, the management chair. But they’re much more free-form and adaptable than those names would suggest (though they're ideally suited to them). All of these chairs are creations that you can use in your home, whether it be for relaxing, working, or sitting at the table. Charles and Ray Eames prided themselves on making furniture that was useful as well as beautiful, comfortable as well as stylish, and these chairs are shining example of just that kind of furniture. Their hip, retro look, as fresh now as the day they were made, looks great in nearly every home and design scheme, and their comfort and support are ahead of most chairs being made today (while these were made five decades ago). These chairs have been extensively celebrated and extensively bought, and they’re still as desirable, right now, as they always have been.

While the Eames Aluminum Group Chairs have been showpieces in museums and offices for more than half a century, it’s important to remember that they were originally designed for the home, and they are still very well suited to that position. Every type of Aluminum Group Chair including the lounge, the executive, and the management chair, all have a unique look and a unique role in the life and layout of your home. For instance the lounge chair, complete with ottoman, is perfect for living rooms and dens, places where folks need to relax, read, watch movies, and simply take a nap. The executive, while clearly an office-favoring chair, is also good for the home office, any desk in the home, and even as a kitchen table chair. The management is the jack of all trades. It looks great anywhere you put it, and can serve your needs in nearly every room of the home. Put them under the kitchen table, in the living room, in the rooms of your children, your home office; anywhere you need a place to sit, the management chair can get the job done and look great while doing it.

This article will deal with how each piece of the legendary Eames Aluminum Group Chairs can be used beautifully in your home, what are the strengths of each piece, and how well they fit into your design and color schemes. This is the Eames Aluminum Group Chair: In The Home.

 

The Eames Aluminum Group Lounge Chair Eames Aluminum Lounge Chair

While this is not the original incarnation of the aluminum series, it is the one that is possibly most suited to home life. Everything about the chair, indeed, lends itself to indoor use, lounging, comfort and style. It's perfect for the living room, or the den.

Let's start with the practical uses of the Aluminum Group Lounge Chair. The practical use is, of course, included in the name. This is a chair meant for reclining, resting, relaxing, and enjoying oneself. That’s what makes it so perfect for family rooms, living rooms and dens; this is the chair you’d watch TV in, the chair you’d read your books in, the chair you’d watch the fire in, a blanket thrown over your legs. The ottoman that comes with the chair is itself beautiful, a great complement to the chair, and one more comfort aspect that’s going to help you stay relaxed (or stay asleep, depending on how you like to use a lounger!).

The lounge chair also just plain looks great. It has an extended seat back, unlike the management chair, and that keeps your head, neck and shoulders more supported, and helps you to recline with a lot more comfort and a lot less tension in your upper body. The ottoman that comes with the chair helps you keep your legs stretched out and comfortable. The materials in the chair are the same classics, though; there is leather stretched across from tip to tail, and the richness of the material is soft and inviting. The ribs of the chair, the two poles that the leather stretches from, are aluminum, polished and modern. The overall look is a very cool, retro classic. It looks like a classic, but it sits like a contemporary chair; it's as comfortable as it can be. That was one of the great gifts bestowed on Charles and Ray Eames; everything they made looked great, departed from the norm, but was also very comfortable.

Smart Furniture is very proud to offer our customers the Eames Aluminum Group Lounge Chair and Ottoman for their homes and living spaces. Whether it’s the living room, the covered patio, or any sitting room, it will look great in your home. Like everything else from the Herman Miller catalogue, it’s well made, beautiful, and very effective at doing it’s job as furniture. Get yours today and bring high-design into your home.

 

The Eames Aluminum Group Executive Chair Eames Aluminum Executive Chair

The executive chair differentiates itself from the other chairs in the series by having a high back, a greater degree of curve in the seat back, and being automatically in a position of recline (as the lounge chair is). It was meant to be a more conventionally impressive chair, and thus the name; the executive chair was a piece of furniture meant to be in high powered offices, behind impressive desks, supporting impressive workers.

But, like everything that the Eames made for Herman Miller, it's more flexible than its proposed intent. While it is perfect for an executive, the chair itself can be used in many other rooms and types of service, and is very comfortable in the home. In fact, there are few places in the home in need of seating solutions that couldn’t be satisfied by the executive chair.

Of course, the main beneficiary in the home would be the home office. The Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair is perfect for this arena for obvious reasons. But of course, the aura of prestige and even power that the chair exudes in a professional office is replaced by a feeling of style and taste in the home. With almost any desk and almost any design scheme, this chair looks great in a home office. The wheels on the bottom make it easy to slide, the lightweight nature of the chair makes it easy to move, and the materials make it easy to look at. They also make it easy to sit in, being extremely comfortable. The comfort pocket that is produced in all of the Eames Aluminum Group Chairs is particularly pronounced in the lounge and executive versions, because their longer backs create a longer, more necessary pocket. The back of the executive version is also more curvy than the other, and that two fits your back and makes you more comfortable, more supported. When you sit in and work in a chair that looks and feels great, your work will improve as well (or at least it will feel that way!).

But the home office isn't the only place in the house this chair belongs. While it doens’t have quite the relaxation capabilities that the lounge chair does, not being able to recline so far, it is a very comfortable chair that can be used to great effect in the living room or the den. Anywhere you’ll spend time fellowshipping, watching TV, reading or just relaxing. It looks beautiful, with a retro cool feel, in nearly any American living room or den. It can also be put outside (if the patio is covered or the porch is screened in and covered) and look great there. You could even, if you like a high-backed look at the dinner table, be used in the kitchen or the dining room.

Wherever you choose to use the Eames Aluminum Group Executive Chair, you can be sure it will fulfill several of the most important jobs home living furniture must do. It will be comfortable, it will look great, it will be supportive, and it will be flexible, durable, and a great value. It may have been designed with the corner office in mind, but it works just as well in the corner of the living room. Smart Furniture is excited and proud to offer this chair to our customers through the Herman Miller catalogue. Get yours today.

 

The Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair Eames Aluminum Management Chair

This is the most adaptable and flexible of the three aluminum series chairs. It has practical application in nearly every room of the home, and works both as a lounge chair and as an executive desk chair (though admittedly not as perfectly as the other two chairs fulfill the purpose for which they were intended). It's a jack of all trades, perfect for the boardroom, the desk, the kitchen, the bedroom, and the living room. It’s a side chair with a serious streak of elegance and high-design style, and it’s both comfortable and supportive.

Perhaps the most appropriate use of the chair is as a simple side chair. It can be used at the kitchen table for instance, or at a small desk or nook. It can be used outdoors as well, as long as the leather is kept out of the elements (think screened-in porch or covered patio). In fact, the very first prototypes of the chair were meant for use as outdoor chairs; they used mesh instead of leather, and were meant to be both outdoor and indoor chairs. They could move between the two spaces. That spirit of unconventional design and flexible usage prevails in the Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair.

The materials in the chair are the same as the materials in the other versions of the aluminum series. There is rich leather, soft and inviting, stretched between and poised over polished aluminum. Not only is the look of the chair somewhat unconventional, at the time it was built aluminum was not exactly a popular choice for the living room and the home. But Charles and Ray Eames brought out the beauty in the metal, and the beauty in the chair. The materials are no longer new, but they retain a sense of style and beauty rarely seen in contemporary furniture. This is furniture that still looks great, still looks cool, over five decades after it was first released into the American market. That's a great accomplishment.

But, even though they are in museum, Eames Aluminum Group Chairs are still great (and great looking) in your home. The management chair works behind desks in the home office, underneath tables in the kitchen and the dining room, and in the living room and the den, places to sit and read, watch movies, or just relax. They're also comfortable in the boardroom, the office, and the lobby. These are chairs that can go anywhere, and look great doing it. The Eames Aluminum Group Management Chairs are built with shorter backs than the other chairs in the series, making them less dominating in a design scheme, and they also have less curvature in the back. They’re just as comfortable however, and actually with the lowered back resemble in the LCW, because the seat of the chair is larger than the seat back. That’s the Eames sensibility through and through; subvert, but also make comfortable.

 

All of these chairs, while built for specific purposes, are flexible and multi-functional. Like almost everything that Charles and Ray Eames made, the furniture accommodates to you, and not the other way around.

The Eames Aluminum Group Chairs, from the lounge chair to the management chair to the executive chair, are uniformly impressive. They're attractive from a design standpoint, durable from a value standpoint. They work in almost every room of the house, so they’re adaptable and flexible, another important aspect of home furnishing. They’ve more than stood the test of time; they’re every bit as desirable today as they were when they first came out, at the end of the 1950s. Smart Furniture is very proud to offer our customers these one of a kind chairs from Charles and Ray Eames. Get yours today, and put a little style and substance into your home!