Lounge Chair is comfort and design

The Lounge Chair of Vitra is not only the project’s best-known designer couple Charles and Ray Eames but the real icon chair contemporary, perfect synthesis of comfort and design. This armchair, launched in 1956, is the result of a modern reinterpretation of the traditional club chair and enjoy for its structure studied in detail. The shape resembles a baseball glove soft and worn, which leave gently sink. The seat, backrest and armrests are connected by fittings rubber and metal, the padding is removable coverings skin, Available in black, brown and white. The base metal may be polished or chrome. The wood used was walnut or rosewood veneer. This essence has the same strong effect of expression of the wood but gives a more sober look at the session, responding to contemporary taste. Even today it is a product that can generate great enthusiasm but also the classics, which enjoy a high level of notoriety and success on the market, sometimes needing a renewal.
Charles and Ray Eames were aware of and over the years had developed a number of versions this chair. In agreement with the Eames Office and animated by the same spirit of the founders of Lounge Chair Vitra continues this tradition of renewal. For this reason, in 2007, was presented a white version of the Lounge Chair, while today it is a new variant with body in American walnut veneer, presented at the Salone del Mobile 2010.