This posting has been deleted by its author.Save / RememberSign-in to save Piece of Furniture: Mod Made Plywood Lounge ChairBased on: Eames LCWAssessment: The Eames Lounge Chair is an icon of American design. Made of molded plywood and leather, the Eames Lounge Chair was designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller in 1956 — the first chair that the Eameses designed for the high-end market. With vintage Eames LCW’s going for $2,000 and up, replicating is something to consider. In order to create furniture that is curved or rounded, you will need to know how to bend plywood.Skill to know: Bending Plywood. To begin, map out your design and understand how many individual pieces you will need to bend. For the Eames Lounge Chair, you will need a seat, 2 back legs, 2 front legs and 2 arm rests. For materials, you will need poplar bendy plywood, random scrap plywood for molds, strips of plastic for molds, resin glue, and biscuit joints. If you aren’t using poplar bendy plywood, or want to be extra sure that your wood is pliable, the general rule is that wet or warm wood is easier to bend.
As well, you can keep in mind a 1:5 thickness to radius ratio.First you need to know how flexible your wood is. Once you know the radius of your bend, you can begin to create your prototype. You will then need to use clamps to begin a series of bends on your individual pieces. Beware that some pieces might take twice as long as others due to multiple bends required rather than just one, like the armrests. Bending the seat will be the most complicated and will require some extra time and possibly another person to help you glue the surfaces and clamp from the opposite side. Once you have your pieces bent, you need to prep them for assembly by putting them together with contact cement and glue. Depending on how long the glue takes to dry, this step could take up to 24 hours alone. The easy part is adding some finish and some wax for protectant. Prototypes: One thing is for sure, you want the chair to be comfortable! Consider prototypes as a necessary part of the process, with which you test out the product in a series of trial and error.
Keep in mind the way that your legs fall when you sit down, the comfort of the angles, and the amount of weight you want the chair to hold. With a thoughtful prototype, you can consider all angles, and measurements according to your comfort level.Decision: The complicated part is the make of this chair. Because of the way the seat sits in the legs, the process may end up taking more time (and more tries) than you’d like. Bending plywood can be done, but it does take patience and practice. You could buy the chair from Like Modern ($135) for just about the same cost as the materials to make it, and skip the intense labor, so buying would be the smarter option. Crafts For Sale by Foxes Making Home Décor with Duck Tape 6 Snazzy IKEA Hacks for your Home Replacing a Broken Sofa Leg (VIDEO) Location: Santiago de Chile Select All Posts By This User Location: New York City / Buenos Aires Location: Brooklyn, SF, Tokyo Another option is to consider a chair of similar style that's not a blatant rip.
Plycraft, maker of many an Eames knockoff, produced two pieces by George Mulhauser that might fill the bill. The first is clearly inspired by the Eames lounge but sufficiently different that they can't be confused. Mulhauser's version has a larger headrest, for a Bond villain vibe, and no tufting. Also, the back and headrest are made from a single piece of bent wood, which is pretty nifty. The second is the better known Mr. Chair. You can see them here. They're both relatively common and nice specimens can be had for less than a grand. Personally, I would not consider a direct rip of an Eames lounge. i was looking into some information for a Eames Lounge chair, the highest quality ones. I found 2 companies in particular with what seems to be the best materials and claimed craftsmanship. Has anyone heard of these guys ? RoveConcepts, they are from Canada and IconicInteriors from UK. I'm leaning towards RoveConcepts, mostly for the fact its much easier to ship. Location: The American Gardens Building, West 81st
Select All Posts By This UserTo celebrate Sancal 40 Aniversarybrand, we proposed a chair inspired in the 4 decades of design. Instead of develop four different chairs, we design a piece with one structure with four different endorsements. Each endorsement is inspired by historical key chairs. The R20 endorsement symbolizes the vanguards and it is inspired by the Cesca chair designed by Marcel Breuer. The R30 endorsement is a tribute to the Scandinavian design of the 30´s and it´s inspired by 69 chair designed by Alvar Aalto. The 40 endorsement represents the organic design of the 40´s to 60´s and it´s inspiredby LCW chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames. The postmodern creative currents of the 70 are represented by the R70 endorsement who is inspired by Synthesis 45 chair that was designedby Ettore Sottssas for Olivetti.Project developed in our stage of partners at Nadadora studio for Sancal About International Decorative Art Designers in the Collection LCW (Lounge Chair Wood)
Charles Eames (1907–1978, American) & Ray Eames (1912–1988, American) Evans Products Company, Venice, CA plywood with rosewood veneer 26 5/8 x 22 1/8 x 24 3/4 inches Husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames researched inexpensive techniques of wood molding and laminating during World War II, adapting Charles’s work with the Navy to develop molded plywood leg splints. They made a series of plywood chairs as a result, with the LCW’s seat and back molding to the human body to provide optimal comfort. Because of the chair’s comfort, the manufacturer did not need to upholster it. The Eameses didn’t want to mar the design of the wood chair with bolts or screws, so they used rubber shock mounts glued to the back of the chair to join together the pieces in an invisible way. They intended for the LCW to be an economical, industrially-produced option. Their stated goal was “to get the most of the best to the greatest number of people for the least.”