Miniatures LCM

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For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of milestones in furniture design from its collection.
Item No. VT-MLCM
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The Miniatures Collection encapsulates the entire history of industrial furniture design – moving from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the Bauhaus and New Objectivity, from Radical Design and Postmodernism all the way up to the present day.

Exactly one-sixth the size of the historical originals, the chairs are all true to scale and precisely recreate the smallest details of construction, material and colour.

Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen designed a chair in 1940 with a new type of three-dimensional preshaped plywood seat for a competition held by the New York Museum of Modern Art.

The Plywood Chairs: DCW (Dining Chair Wood), LCW (Lounge Chair Wood) and the versions with metal legs, namely DCM (Dining Chair Metal) and LCM (Lounge Chair Metal) were the result of these years of experimentation. In 1945 Charles and Ray Eames again took up the idea of a seat made of formed plywood without, however, coming up with satisfactory solutions. As a consequence, they rejected the idea of a multifunctional seat and decided to treat seat and back as separate, freely articulated elements that were linked with each other via a backbone – the frame. Each component is therefo

Product ID: 1019398

Dimensions

Width: 105mm
Depth: 111mm
Height: 94mm

Warranty

This product is covered by a 2-year conditional warranty.

Sustainability

Our operations are carbon neutral. The local and international freight we organise to deliver this product to you will be offset through the purchase of Verified Carbon Standard carbon credits.


Vitra Miniatures Collection, Group
Vitra Miniatures Collection, Group
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