Eames Lounge Chair in the Home

The day you bring home the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman you have entered into a special fraternity of owners. This is a chair that commands real respect among connoisseurs and collectors, will immediately claim a place of honor in your home, and will serve your needs for years and years to come. It's an heirloom as well as a chair, it's pedigree is unmatched. Possibly the greatest chair ever built in terms of design, comfort, aesthetic, and pedigree, it's a definitive marker of taste, luxury, history, and Americana.

Thrillingly and intimately designed by husband and wife duo Charles and Ray Eames at the legendary Office of Charles and Ray Eames, the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman is at the top of the list when it comes to furniture design in the twentieth century, as are it's two creators. The Eames' built their reputation by combining modern means and systems (like film, molded plywood, mathematics) with natural forms and inspiration (curvature, natural materials, etc.). The Eames Lounge Chair is just one more in a long line of such furniture. The unique look of the chair was born out of a unique and brilliant design template; a worn, well-loved baseball glove. Charles Eames came up with that bit of inspiration to guide the look and feel of the chair, and the product is a rousing success.

The sheer comfort of the Eames Lounge Chair has made it a favorite reading spot.

When you bring the chair into your home, you'll be pleased not only by it's look, which is stunning, but by it's versatility. The Eames Lounge Chair is a great fit almost anywhere in your home, including living room, office, den, bedroom, library, even porch (make sure it's got a roof over it!). It works great as a living room recliner, allowing the owner to watch the game, read a book or take a nap in exquisite comfort. It can replace overstuffed or uncomfortable armchairs and less than ideal ottomans. It's a jack of all trades when it comes to use and placement within your home, an adaptability and flexibility that extends to it's unconventional, now-classic design.

Over the long, durable lifetime of your Eames Lounge Chair, it will serve you in as many capacities as it's called to perform, become a favorite piece, a great story, and "a refuge from the strains of modern living," as Charles Eames himself once put it. It will become an heirloom, passed down through generations and acquiring all the age and character of that well-used baseball glove it was built to recall. However, if you choose to get rid of the chair or recycle it, the manufacturers at Herman Miller have a done a wonderful job of ensuring you can do just that in a responsible and sustainable way. The chair itself was built with several parts derived from recycled material, and is itself up to a third recyclable. However, it's unlikely you'll ever have the need; this is a piece of museum quality furniture that will serve and seat you and yours for generations to come.

Shown here in a living room, with a Noguchi Table in the foreground.