"It's Child's Play," Herman Miller Furniture Company, 1955-1960
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Husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames' now ubiquitous fiberglass chairs are the product of a years-long effort to design a low-cost, mass-produced, modern chair with single piece for the seat and back. This versatile chair was equally useful in cafeterias, auditoriums, lounge areas or meeting spaces and could be stacked vertically or connected side-by-side to create rows, as this postcard advertises.
Husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames' now ubiquitous fiberglass chairs are the product of a years-long effort to design a low-cost, mass-produced, modern chair with single piece for the seat and back. This versatile chair was equally useful in cafeterias, auditoriums, lounge areas or meeting spaces and could be stacked vertically or connected side-by-side to create rows, as this postcard advertises.
Artifact
Postcard
Subject Date
1955-1960
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.177.204
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Herman Miller, Inc.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in
Inscriptions
on back: IT'S CHILD'S PLAY . . .to ready your cafeteria, lounge or auditorium for a meeting if you use stacking chairs from Herman Miller designed by Charles Eames. These reinforced plastic chairs stack vertically, have side hooks which permit gauging chairs in long rows. Available in shell colors and 18 upholstery fabrics. / HERMAN MILLER FURNITURE CO., ZEELAND, MICH.
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