Eames Molded Plastic Armchair Rocker Base Click on image to zoom Designers: Charles and Ray EamesThe Molded Plastic Armchair Rocker Base is exemplary of the Eameses’ iterative process and their desire to make “the best for the most for the least.” With each new finish and configuration, Charles and Ray pushed the boundaries of what the shell chair can be, whether it’s in an office lounge or the corner of your living room. Made of 100 percent recyclable polypropylene, this plastic rocking chair’s subtle matte texture offers a soft tactility and notable durability, and it is available in an array of colors and numerous upholstery options. Configure Your Eames Molded Plastic Armchair Rocker Base Add to Wish List Charles and Ray Eames realized their first successful, single-shell form in 1950 with the Molded Fiberglass Chairs. However, when the environmental risks associated with fiberglass production became more widely understood, the decision was made to switch to a safer plastic material.
In 2004, Herman Miller reintroduced the Molded Plastic Armchair Rocker Base in polypropylene. Fulfilling the goals of every modern designer. The Molded Plastic Armchair Rocker Base is available in an array of colors as well as a variety of upholstery options including many from the Alexander Girard archive. You've been added to our mailing list. Please enter a valid email addressEames Molded Plastic Chairs 3D Models / Revit Charles and Ray Eames See how this product can contribute to your environmental goals.However, when the environmental risks associated with fiberglass production became more widely understood, the decision was made to discontinue fiberglass shell production until a more suitable material could be found. In 2001, Herman Miller reintroduced the Molded Plastic Chair in polypropylene. In addition to being 100 percent recyclable, the polypropylene shell chair's subtle matte texture offers a soft tactility as well as notable durability.
Eames Molded Plastic Chairs are available as side chairs or armchairs, and in a choice of colors, including archival or new options. Armchair and side chair shells can be fully upholstered in a variety of textiles; side chair shells can be specified with an upholstered seat pad. A choice of bases rounds out your customization options. For Every NeedCharles Eames famously said, “The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.” With the molded plastic, fiberglass, and wood shell chairs—as well as the wire chair—the Eames have created a universal response to what everyone wants from a chair: a simple, gracious form that fits any body and every place. In Every WayBorne out of Charles’ and Eero Saarinen’s early investigations molding plywood at Cranbrook Academy in 1939, and continued with Ray at the Eames studio in Venice, California, the molded chair is exemplary of the Eames iterative process and their desire to make “the best for the most for the least.”
With each new form, finish, and configuration, the Eames continued to push the boundaries of what the shell chair could be: after experimenting with single-form plywood and stamped metal, they turned to fiberglass and experimented with bent wire; when fiberglass production proved unhealthy for the environment, the decision was made to switch production to a safer plastic; and now, with advancements in safe fiberglass composition and dynamic veneer technologies, the evolution continues with the Molded Fiberglass and Molded Wood Chairs. For EveryoneThe Eames Shell Chair was designed on the principle of adaptability, offering innumerable configurations to serve a wide variety of applications and environments. It’s what makes the chair a classic worthy of museum collections—and living rooms, Laundromats, lobbies, and cafés. It’s what makes it a great first piece of furniture to buy in your twenties, that’s still worthy and relevant enough to hand down to your children 20 years later.
A diverse selection of shell, base, color, and finish options enable you to create your perfect chair. Just like every person, every chair has a story. Eames Molded Fiberglass Armchair Rocker Base Designers: Charles and Ray EamesThe Molded Fiberglass Armchair Rocker Base is exemplary of the Eameses’ iterative process and their desire to make “the best for the most for the least.” Configure Your Eames Molded Fiberglass Armchair Rocker Base Thanks to a new, proprietary process of producing fiberglass-reinforced plastic, Herman Miller is once again able to produce the original 1950 Eames Molded Fiberglass Armchair safely by means of a less volatile, monomer-free "dry bind" process. Like the original shell chairs, our new, fiberglass finish has the same covetable surface variation and telltale fiberglass striation that have attracted avid vintage collectors for decades.The process for making shells and the nature of fiberglass mean that each shell is unique and can possess traits such as tiny cavities in the surface, small points of lighter or darker color, or faint circular shadows where base attaches to shell.
Like the countless fiberglass shells that have been beloved by avid Eames collectors and design enthusiasts for years, we expect our newly formulated Eames Molded Fiberglass Armchair Rocker Base to endure for generations to come. However, in the off chance your Molded Fiberglass Shell is compromised, Herman Miller's Take Back program offers an environmentally sound means for recycling it. The Eames Molded Fiberglass Armchair Chair is available in a spectrum of archival colors and numerous upholstery options straight from the Alexander Girard Archive. A "Preform" that Performs To create preforms for the new Eames Molded Fiberglass Arm and Side Chairs, a "dry binder process" is used. With this technique, fiberglass strands, some of which melt at a lower temperature, are blown by a robot onto a screen in the shape of the chair shell. Heat is then applied, and enough strands melt so that the preform's shape remains intact, avoiding the harmful "wet glue" process used in traditional fiberglass fabrication.