Vitra - Miniatuur La Chaise lounge chair

Vitra La Chaise lounge chair miniatura.

The Vitra La Chaise has now become a real design icon. This chair was designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1948 for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with Gaston Lachaise's "Floating Figure" as inspiration.

This miniature is an exact replica of the iconic La Chaise design chair designed by Charles & Ray Eames in 1948.

All items from the Mini Collection by Vitra  are 1:6 scale models that have faithfully recreated the most important classics of modern furniture design down to the smallest detail.

Each Vitra miniature replica is original in construction, materials and colors.

What applies to the normal version also applies to the mini version, because they are made by hand, which takes an average of five hours of manual labor.

Materials used: Shell: polyurethane, painted white. Base: chrome-plated tubular steel.

Cross base: solid oak natural, varnished.

The measurements are; Width: 25 cm Depth: 14 cm Height: 13.5 cm.

About the designers:

Ray and Charles Eames were an American designer couple whose name is familiar to anyone interested in modern design. Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied architecture at the University of Washington and, at the invitation of the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, continued his studies in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan.

There he met Eero Saarinen, with whom he took part in a competition called 'Organic Design in Home'. Furnishings”, organized by the MoMA in New York. Eames and Saarinen won the competition using a plywood molding technique originally developed by Alvar Aalto. It was also in Cranbrook that Charles Eames met her future wife Ray, and the couple married in 1941.