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"DCM" Side Chair

Creator Name

Charles Eames;
Ray Eames (Bernice Alexandra Kaiser);
Evans Products Company;
Herman Miller, Inc.

Cultural Context

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Date

1946–1949

About the Work

Brooklyn Museum Object Description
"DCM" side chair of molded plywood and chromed metal. Back is trapezoidal piece of plywood, narrower at top and with rounded corners; seat is a larger, trapezoidal piece of plywood, wider at front and with rounded corners; both back and seat curved to fit contours of human body. Short, horizontal metal tube with flattened disk ends attached to back side of chair back with screws and rubber shock mounts; a tubular metal "spine" is soldered to the center of this tube; the spine runs down and underneath seat where it is attached with screws and rubber shock mounts. Two front legs and two back legs each formed by continuous piece of tubular metal bent into an inverted "U" (front leg ...

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Title

"DCM" Side Chair

Creator

Charles Eames, American, American, 1907–1978, Designer;
Ray Eames (Bernice Alexandra Kaiser), American, American, 1912–1988, Designer;
Evans Products Company, Manufacturer;
Herman Miller, Inc., American, American, 1923–present, Distributor

Worktype

Furniture

Cultural Context

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Material

Plywood, metal, rubber

Dimensions

29 5/8 x 19 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (75.2 x 49.2 x 52.7 cm)

Technique

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Date

1946–1949

Provenance

Gift of Olive Emslie, Dec 13, 1990

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Rights

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Creative Commons Attribution
Creative Commons-BY

Inscription

Affixed to underside of seat at front, rectangular gray sticker printed: within a red circle "[in black] EVANS / EVANS" intersecting in cross and sharing the letter A; below "[in red script] Manufactured by / [in black print] EVANS PRODUCTS COMPANY / MOLDED PLYWOOD DIVISION"; in lower left corner "[in black print] herman Miller [M is large, stylized letter in red and overlaps lines above it] / furniture company / SOLE DISTRIBUTOR"; in lower right corner "[black script] Designed by / [in red print] CHARLES EAMES"

Location

Venice, California, United States

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