Seat “La Chaise” | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 3500-4500 EUR

Reached Price : 3200 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2003-05-06

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 154

Design

Ray Eames, Charles Eames
Year 1948/1990s
Manufacturer Vitra AG/Basel

Architonic id

4101728

A seat, “La Chaise”, designed in 1948 by Charles & Ray Eames, manufactured by Vitra AG/Basel, in the 1990s, white fibreglass seat shell, steel rods on polished oak socle, with a paper label ORIGINAL/ EAMES CHAIR/ Charles Eames, height 82.5 cm, width 150 cm, depth 85 cm, height of seat 37 cm.
Literature: 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1995, pages 152/153 - Ch. & P. Fiell, 1000 chairs, Cologne 1997, pages 274/275 - C. Greenberg, Mid Century Modern, NY 1984, page 69.