Vitra Miniature Aluminium Chair

Vitra Miniature Aluminium Chair, Eames, 1958 - Vitra Miniature Design Museum.

Vitra Miniature of the Miniature Collection Vitra Design Museum . The furniture of the indoor-outdoor group go back to a suggestion Alexander Girard , Eero Saarinen and who sought the right furniture for them just completed house Irvin Miller . Girard , who was interested as an architect , among others, of Horticulture, complained that it was probably contemporary design interior , but not handsome terraces or garden furniture . Preoccupied with this Charles Eames, until during a flight he came up with the idea of ​​an aluminum - frame construction combined with a material . He wanted to develop a body adapted form , but not as a hard shell , but as an elastic fabric between two contours of the body following Holmen . On the sides of the fabric received a gain by a narrow plastic strip which was in an outwardly facing groove.

• Producers of " 1:1 " model - since 1958 Herman Miller Furniture Company, Zeeland, Vitra AG , Basel / Switzerland .