Vitra Organic Chair

Material and Fabric Resources

Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen, 1940

Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen created the Organic Chair in 1940 as part of their entry for ‘Organic Design in Home Furnishings’, a competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The small reading chair offers superb comfort, thanks to its comfortably upholstered, biomorphically shaped seat shell, and is also available in a version with a higher backrest: Organic Highback.

Material description

• Seat shell: laminated.
• Upholstery: polyurethane foam with fabric cover.
• Legs: black ash or natural oak.
• Glides: fitted with plastic glides for carpet, felt glides for hard floors additionally included.
• Origin of wood: oak (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior) from Western Europe and/or Poland.

Dimensions: see gallery