View Eames Molded Plywood Lounge Chair With Wood Base Pictures. The eames lounge chair wood (lcw) (also known as low chair wood or eames plywood lounge chair) is a low seated easy chair designed by husband and wife team charles and ray eames. Hailed by time as the best design of the 20th century, the lcw — or lounge chair with wood legs (1946) — began as an experiment in charles and ray eameses' apartment, where they were molding plywood in what.
The eames' experiments with molding plywood into organic forms yielded this design icon.
Eames lounge chair, ebony by charles & ray. Plywood forms support contours of the body surprisingly well, so sitting on this design icon feels good. The environmentally friendly aniline stains we use allow the wood's natural characteristics to show expansive options: While their cousin, the dcm, sits upright, eames molded plywood lounge chairs with metal bases (lcm) are set lower to the ground and angled for relaxation.