DSW Navy Blue Chair by Fuzi x The Woods Gallery - Charles & Ray Eames - Herman Miller - Vintage
Designer: Charles & Ray Eames
Brand: Herman Miller
Colors: Navy Blue, White Paint
Material: Paint, Fiberglass, Walnut, Metal
Dimensions: L 47 cm x D 50 cm x H 82 cm (seat H 46 cm)
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Unique piece
Graphic work by artist, graffiti artist and tattoo artist Fuzi UV TPK in collaboration with The Woods.
Unique hand painted artwork on a vintage Herman Miller edition fiberglass DSW chair from the 70s, in excellent vintage condition.
Designed for the “Low-Cost Furniture Design” competition at MoMA in New York in 1950, the DSW chair (here DSR with the Eiffel metal base) is the result of the Eames couple's research into the molding of fiberglass until then reserved to aeronautics. Its one-piece shell adapted to human anatomy is revolutionizing the furniture industry.
Icon of the 20th century, the DSW (Dining Side chair Wood) is part of history.
It was produced on a large scale from 1950 in the United States by the manufacturer Hermann Miller. This is the beginning of “mass design”.
The first Eames chairs from 1950, distributed by the American Herman Miller, will come from Zenith Plastics in Gardena, California.
After 1953, the publisher changed factories several times, but manufacturing remained American. In Europe, the rights to DSW will be purchased by Vitra.
Lightweight, versatile, easy to maintain, available in multiple colors and mass-produced, the Eames DSW chair has conquered interiors around the world and is now on display in the prestigious collections of modern art museums.
Versatile, the DSW chair can be found in offices as well as in private interiors.
Eames chairs were then available in numerous models: RAR rocking chair, DAW wooden-legged armchair, DAR eiffel-footed armchairs, etc.
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Fuzi is a renowned Parisian illustrator, tattoo artist and graffiti artist.
He made his debut in the 90s within the Parisian graffiti group UVTPK (Ultra Violent The Psychopath Killer), and became known for his unusual graffiti thanks to his own style. Fuzi is in fact at the origin of the Ignorant Style , which results in a false naive style and minimalist designs. He asserted himself in this direction by deciding in the 2000s to become a tattoo artist and illustrator and subsequently founded his brand Ignorant People By Fuzi.
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Charles and Ray Eames are a couple of emblematic designers of the 20th century. Very ahead of their time, they contributed to the democratization of designer furniture for the general public, in particular thanks to the invention of new industrial manufacturing techniques allowing mass production.
We owe them many emblematic design pieces from the 1950s and 60s combining comfort and ergonomics: the famous Lounge Chair, the DCW chair (Dining Chair Wood) or the armchair RAR (Rocking Armchair Rodbase).
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Herman Miller Inc. is an American office furniture and equipment company based in Zeeland, Michigan.
Created in 1905, the original company called Michigan Star Furniture was taken over in 1923 by one of its employees: DJ De Pree.
The company took the name of the man who helped him acquire it, Herman Miller, his father-in-law, a West Michigan businessman.
By the mid-20th century, the name Herman Miller became synonymous with "modern" furniture. Surrounding itself with designers such as George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, the company produced creations that became great classics of industrial design.
We also include the names of Alvar Aalto, Don Chadwick, Alexander Girard, Paul Lázsló, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Probst, Gilbert Rohde, Gloria Sachs, Don Shepard, Bill Stumpf etc… among the designers who worked for Herman Miller.
Glossary of Eames chairs
The first letter of the name of Eames chairs corresponds to its use:
- D for Dine (dinner)
- L for Lounge (lounging)
- R for Rock (swing)
- P for Pivot
The second letter defines the type of chair:
- Chairs with armrests have an A for Armchair
- Accent chairs have an S for Side chair
- Standard chairs have a C for Chair (chair)
- Wire mesh chairs have a K for K-wire
The third letter defines the type of foot:
- W for Wood
- R for Rod
- X like the shape of the letter
- M for Metal
- S for Stacking
- CC like Cast aluminum Casters (casters)
