Designed by Charles and Ray Eames

Eames Wire Chairs

Eames Wire side chair with a wire base, viewed from a 45-degree angle.
  • An Eames Wire Chair with a bikini seat and back, upholstered in a light pink textile. Viewed from the front.
  • Profile view of an Eames Wire side chair with a white leather seat pad and wire base.
  • Two Eames Wire Stools and three Eames Wire Chairs with wire bases.
  • A black Eames Wire Chair with a bikini seat and back. The chair features a black wire base. Viewed at an angle.
  • Rear view of an Eames Wire side chair with a wire base and a black two-piece pad reminiscent of a bikini.
  • Front view of an Eames Wire side chair with a wire base and a white two-piece pad reminiscent of a bikini.
  • Two Eames Wire stools and four Eames Wire chairs with a mix of seat options.
 

Integrity in form, function, and context

Eames Wire side chair with a wire base, viewed from a 45-degree angle.

Eames Wire Chairs

Perhaps more than any design in their oeuvre, the shell chair represents the Eames’ disinterest in superficial aesthetics and their agnostic approach to material. What mattered most to them was the integrity of the form, function, and context—or as Charles often said: “The best for the most for the least.” It’s this attitude that pushed them to explore the shell chair in a variety of finishes, materials, and base configurations.

 

The Eames Wire Chair is a unique iteration in the shell chair’s continuous evolution. In the 1950s, the Eames Office started experimenting in bent and welded wire. Inspired by trays, dress forms, and baskets, the team developed a number of pieces, including the wire version of the single-shell form. The Eames Wire Chair comes with a wire base and an optional full-piece leather seat pad or crisscross, two-piece “bikini” pad; both versions are available in a variety of colors.

Close-up of the optional two-piece, bikini-style seat pad on an Eames Wire side chair.
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Herman Miller x HAY

Classic Eames designs thoughtfully reimagined by Danish design house HAY.

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Eames Wire Chairs group shot on sage background.
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