Early Original Herman Miller Brown Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman Leather Cushions

Name: Early Original Herman Miller Brown Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman Leather Cushions
Price: 2300 USD
Availability: InStock

🪑 Chairs · 1940s–70s

The edit · Chairs

A pre-owned original Eames Lounge chair in brown leather, made for Herman Miller. A mid-century chair is the fastest way to change a room, and the originals were built from solid timber and honest joinery rather than flat-pack.

The Herman Miller mark is the line that separates a licensed piece from a later homage. Turn it over before you fall for the silhouette.

Design for everyone, made like it was for one.

Charles and Ray Eames, husband and wife, transformed furniture from the 1940s onward, pioneering moulded plywood and fibreglass. The Lounge Chair of 1956 became the most famous chair of the century.

Original Eames pieces are the backbone of the mid-century market. The Lounge Chair, the LCW and the fibreglass shell chairs are blue-chip, and the market only climbs.

Why it's called that

Eames Lounge Chair

Charles and Ray Eames designed it in 1956. Charles wanted a chair with 'the warm, receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt'. The lounge chair and ottoman became the most copied chair of the twentieth century.

What to look for

Labels, patent numbers and the Herman Miller or Vitra mark. Original fibreglass has a woven texture and visible fibres that modern reproductions smooth over.

Sit in it, then look underneath. Loose joints are fixable, but a cracked shell or bent frame isn't worth the trouble.