The timeless and elegant molded plywood chair by Charles and Ray Eames has been hailed as the Best Design of the 20th Century by Time magazine.
The accolade appears in the magazine's final issue of the 20th century. Time praised the Eameses for taking "technology created to meet a wartime need" (for leg splints) and then adapting it "to make something elegant, light and comfortable. Much copied but never bettered."
Herman Miller has been producing the Eames molded plywood chairs since they were first designed in 1946. The magazine termed the S-1 steam locomotive and the Swatch watch as runners-up in the design category.
The award is the second major honor for a Herman Miller chair in recent months. In November, 1999, the company's high-performance Aeron chair was named a "Design of the Decade" by the Industrial Design Society of America and Business Week magazine.
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