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The Eames Lounge Chair gets reinvented as a dual-tone skateboard with a similar iconic aesthetic

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Even outside the design world, the Eames Lounge Chair remains an absolute furniture icon. Designed in 1956 by Ray and Charles Eames, the chair’s aesthetic was defined by its use of bent plywood paneling and plush leather cushioning, resulting in a multi-part seat that looked as interesting as it was comfortable. In an audacious blend of design heritage and contemporary street culture, Globe Skateboards has unveiled a stunning homage to Charles and Ray Eames, revered icons of mid-century modern furniture design. This unique collaboration marries the adventurous spirit of skateboarding with the timeless elegance of Eames’ design principles, resulting in a collection that’s both a nod to the past and a ride into the future.

Designers: Globe Brand & Eames Office

Globe’s skateboards intricately mirror the materials and aesthetics of the iconic lounge chair and ottoman. The series includes a 30-inch cruiser in white ash wood, a 32-inch cruiser hewn from walnut, and a 38-inch longboard carved out of black oak. Each skateboard is a tribute to the Eames’ pioneering spirit, capturing the essence of their design legacy. The attention to detail is meticulous, with elements like the paint dip and laser-etched finish on the wood veneer of the skateboards precisely emulating the Eames Lounge Chairs and Ottoman.

Eames Lounge 30-inch Cruiser in Ash Wood and White

Eames Lounge 38-inch Longboard

The core of this venture is the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, a staple of 20th-century design. Renowned for its innovative use of molded plywood and premium veneers, the Lounge Chair reimagined the classic 19th-century English club chair into a modern marvel. Its distinct form and replaceable components have allowed it to transcend generations, standing as a symbol of enduring design.

Close-up of the 32-inch Walnut Cruiser against the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman

The homage doesn’t stop at mere visual replication. Globe’s collaboration with the Eames Office can be seen in the smaller details too, such as custom-embedded metal Eames Office + Globe badges and Eames logo deck bolts, enriching the skateboards. Even the underside of the boards feature a laser-carved Eames Office logo, a subtle yet significant mark of this unique partnership.

The skateboards come packaged in heavyweight canvas board bags that double as carry-all totes, signaling Globe’s commitment to practicality and style. Although the walnut cruiser has already sold out, indicating the collection’s popularity, other models, including the Eames La Chaise Box Set, remain available for enthusiasts and collectors.

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Eames Office x Reebok Classic Collection dropping soon

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Eames Office Elephant Reebok Cool Aloe

If you are a real design enthusiast, then you know who Eames is. Well, there are actually two Eames: Charles & Ray Eames. But for this purpose, we will now refer to Eames as the brand because the surname has become really popular throughout the decades. So if you don’t own an Eames chair yet, you can probably just consider getting an Eames pair.

A pair of Eames footwear can be purchased soon as Reebok teamed up with the furniture brand. The result is the Eames Office x Reebok collection. Three pairs are actually based on three Eames products: the Eames Coloring Toy, Eames Elephant, and its signature rosewood woodgrain. The latter is Eames’ favorite furniture finishing, which is applied to Reebok’s Classic Leather shoes.

Designers: Eames Office and Reebok

Eames Office Reebok Cool Aloe Sneakers

The Eames x Reebok collection features iconic designs reimagined as sneakers. The most notable is the Eames Elephant stool transformed into footwear. The Reebok Eames Elephant Sneakers are available in three colorways: Cool Aloe, Seaside Gray, and Vector Red. Each pair boasts a detachable elephant face that you can take out if you want to look more serious. Additionally, this pair features Eames Office and Reebok branding on the tongue. Even the insole shows the Eames Office logo.

Eames Elephant Chair

Eames Office Elephant Reebok Red Vector

Eames Elephant Stool

The Reebok Eames Elephant Sneakers appear playful with the fun elephant ears and colors. Based on the Eames Coloring Toy, the next pair shows the monochromatic illustrations on the white canvas. It appears to be more customizable like the original Eames Coloring Toy. And like the toy, it has two purposes: s a sculpture and a pair of shoes.

Eames The Coloring Toy Reebok Classic

Eames The Coloring Toy Reebok Classic Sneakers

Eames Office Reebok Classic Rosewood Sneakers

The last pair is set in dark brown woodgrain. It combines the ’80s Reebok style with a hint of mid-century. You can call this the Eames Classic Leather Shoes. The pair features a supple leather upper with a wood grain design. The design brings the luxury touch and feel and the signature sock liners and Eames logo. To complete the look, the pairs are placed inside an Eames House box.

Eames Office Elephant Reebok Box

In case you didn’t know, this isn’t the first time Eames Office worked with Reebok. An earlier sneaker collection was released last year. The sneaker drop was a success, and a follow-up has since been in demand. The new Eames Office x Reebok Classic Leather collection will be available for only $120 per pair beginning June 21, 2022. We’re expecting this series to sell fast not only among sneakerheads but also fans of Eames.

Eames Office Reebok Cool Aloe

Eames Office Elephant Reebok Seaside Gray Sneakers

Eames Office Elephant Reebok Seaside Gray

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Inspired by the iconic Eames Lounge chair, this cantilevered chair was built to lift you up!

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Innovative chair designs might feel hard to come by, but when one does come along, it’s not so much a thought, but a feeling that there’s something special about it. Whether it’s in the design, construction, or marketing processes, chairs can tell a story and inform us of a designer’s willingness to revolutionize preexisting modes of design, like Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair, break the mold during periods of construction, as is the case with the Panton chair, or publicly broadcast a design’s potential for overnight success, like Charles and Ray Eames’ Eames Lounge Chair. Pulling inspiration from the last design mentioned above, Danny Cheung brought to life his own vision of the elusive ‘great chair design’ with the Clipspringer Lounge Chair.

Similar to the Eames Office Chair, Clipspringer is constructed using spring steel, which, much like great chair designs, is a durable, long-lasting building material all thanks to its molding process. Spring steel is the product of a low alloy, medium carbon steel that is heat-tempered to bend and harden the steel into the designer’s desired figure. By partly using spring steel to create the structure of Clipspringer, the chair’s overall elastic modulus is benefitted to maintain an object’s stress on the chair’s cushion and backrest without it concaving inwards – this is what allows Danny Cheung to stand on the edge of his cantilevered chair frame without the chair losing grip on the floor beneath it. A metal frame sits just above the bent spring steel and absorbs much of the tensile stress applied to the Clipspringer chair so that you can comfortably position yourself and lean all the way back without fear that the chair’s cantilevered structure will collapse under compression.

Aesthetically speaking, Clipspringer is certainly reminiscent of great, influential chair designs of yesterday like Wassily’s iconic black cushion and sterling steel combination or Eames Lounge Chair’s reclined backrest and accompanying footrest. However, the cantilevered chair design’s experimental and methodical design process is akin to that of the Panton Chair. The Panton Chair found its audience and overnight success in Basle, Switzerland thanks to Verner Panton’s steadfast commitment to designing and molding a chair out of material that still belongs distinctly to the 60s: plastic. Through consistent experimentation and efficient changes during construction, Verner Panton created an unprecedented lounge chair that still turns heads several years later. Danny Cheung took to planning his own interpretation of the designer’s ever-changing vision for the ideal lounge chair and certainly rose to the occasion.

Designer: Danny Cheung

The iconic Eames chair gets a fun, playful, modern day redesign!

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Charles Eames once famously said, “The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.” The quote is relevant today and so is the designer’s design philosophy that he implemented across his iconic chair designs over the years. Designer Bert Loeschner took inspiration from the Eames thought-process and their legendary shell chair to bring them to life in his own style with his ‘inspired by Eames’ collection!

Bert Loeschner is an expert in creating manipulated sculptural pieces, one of his favorite objects being a chair. The collection featured here today is labeled ‘Rocking armchair relation/ RAR’, taking the Eames rocking chair and replicating it on the other end, creating a modern-day seesaw. This reinterpretation takes a fun, playful yet memorable approach that is almost Newtonian in design. Resin, fiberglass, polyurethane, steel, and oak were used to create it with special attention to detail given to creating the fake vintage salmon style glass fiber. The seats feature two colors – salmon and seafoam and have been handcrafted with love. The design also utilizes self-produced shock mounts, stronger rodbases, and steambended oak rockers to maintain that precise balance.

The second interpretation by Bert titled ‘Reinterpretation’ features the RAR chair in an almost flattened form, to observe its impact on the society by a chair. As Bert explains “This rocking armchair, created from Ray and Charles Eames in the ’50s turned through time into an icon. Architects, Interior Designers as well as Product Designers use it as a timeless reference in renderings, photographs as well as in real settings. It is one of the most photographed chairs of our present. The chair in this certain perspective is built upon the first picture popping up when I googled RAR Eames. I printed that picture in real size and from this point, I recreated the chair as an icon using its original materials.”

Merging his fascination with recrafting chairs, the ‘Kim_K’ and the ‘Dead Sidechair Wood’ designs take an almost dystopian view of the humble chair, which seems in line with the reality we currently find ourselves in. One of a kind and iconic in their own way, each design by Bert Loeschner has us at the edge of our seat as we look forward to more spectacular creations!

Designer: Bert Loeschner

Reinterpretation

The design titled ‘Reinterpretation’ features the RAR chair in an almost flattened form, to observe its impact on the society by a chair.

Kim_K

The shell chair goes pop culture with a Kardashian-inspired makeover!

Dead Sidechair Wood

A direct statement to how nothing can take away from the beauty of the original design.

The Eames Chair-inspired “Lounge Mouse” is also a luxurious arm-rest

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Claiming he was tired of ‘electronic-looking electronics’, Shane Chen designed what one might consider an awakening for the tech industry. Taking inspiration from an iconic chapter in furniture design, Chen envisioned the Lounge Mouse, a hat-tip to Ray and Charles Eames’ Lounge Chair. The Lounge Mouse follows the form and visual direction of the ottoman footrest that comes along with the chair. The base of the mouse is made from bent plywood, while the upper half is an incredibly soft leather clad with a scroll-wheel in its upper center. “The design addresses the ergonomics and style of a computer mouse from the perspective of designing furniture”, says Chen, who designed the Lounge Mouse as an entry for Render Weekly’s online rendering challenge.

Designer: Shane Chen for Render Weekly

The Eames Radio is making a modern comeback after over 70 years

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After a little over 70 years, Vitra is doing a special reissue of Ray and Charles Eames’ iconic radio design, but bringing it back with a slight modern twist. The Eames Radio, if you look at it, looks quite like the icon of a radio. It’s perhaps the most natural design ever, featuring a use of geometry, proportion, and just pure sense, to make something so clear and so beautiful, it looks stunning even after 70 years. Vitra’s reissue takes that design and puts a modern spin on it. The radio still comes with a molded plywood exterior, an antenna, and a matrix of circular holes that serve as the speaker grille. It still comes with two rotary knobs, but also packs four extra control buttons and an LCD display that’s equally vintage and modern. With the Eames signature on the bottom left, the Vitra Eames Radio pays tribute to an icon of product design, created by two of product design’s most revered names. In honor of how special the original design is, Vitra is limiting their production/reissue to just 999 pieces.

Designer: Vitra X Ray & Charles Eames