Herman Miller is adding a stylish splash of many colors to the Eames molded plywood lounge chair, a dramatic update for a enduringly popular chair first produced in 1945 and named by Time magazine in 1999 as the Design of the Century. Herman Miller is reintroducing aniline stain in a series of fresh color choices on the richly grained birch veneer.The colorful palette for the lounge chair with wooden legs (LCW) will initially include yellow, light blue and white, with green, orange, purple, black and red aniline stains added later this summer. The new colors also will be available later this summer on the Eames molded plywood lounge chair with metal legs (LCM), the dining chair with wooden legs (DCW) and the dining chair with metal legs (DCM).
The first three colors will be shown at the Herman Miller exhibit in Booth 1610 at the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, running May 19-22 in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The introduction of the new colors coincide with Herman Miller's celebration of the centennial of the birth of Charles Eames, who with his wife, Ray, produced modern classic designs for the company from the 1940s to the 1970s. Eames was born on June 17, 1907, in St. Louis.
