Vitra - Aluminium Group EA 117 Office Chair

 

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The Aluminium Chair by the designers marriage Charles & Ray Eames is one of the most important furniture-designs of the 20th century!

The iconic design of the aluminium chair spreads its modern elegance in rooms all over the world since meanwhile 50 years. The chairs are equally popular for leading personalities out of culture, politics, economy and entertainment.

A main characteristic of the aluminium chair is the intelligent connection of the materials. The coating is fixed and tensed in the lateral aluminium profiles. With it, it is not a coating, but carries the whole construction. It even adapts to your body, offering the highest comfort, also without nerving upholstery. Contrasting other products of the aluminium group, the EA 117 and the EA 119 chairs possess rolls under their feet.

Vitra produces the aluminium chair program in unchanged quality since decades.

The EA 117 Aluminium Chair is available in further colours and with a polished frame.

Supplementary information

• More informations about the aluminium group (PDF ca. 1,3 MB)
• cover fabric, hopsack (PDF ca. 970 KB)
• cover fabric, leather (PDF ca. 407 KB)

Design: Charles & Ray Eames

Charles Eames, born in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri - Ray Eames, born as Bernice Alexandra Kaiser in 1912 in Sacramento, Kalifornien designed trend-setting designs, which can be found wordlwide in numerous museums. Designer Charles & Ray Eames