Charles Eames. Born 1907, Saint Louis USA. Architect and Designer. Armchair 670. Designed 1955. Laminated rosewood on metal swivel base with down and foam filled leather upholstery.

Armchair 670, laminated rosewood on metal swivel base with down and foam filled leather upholstery.
Christies 1984--Designed by Charles Eames, 1956 and manufactured by Herman Miller. The rounded rectangular back and seat moulded in three sections and upholstered in brown hide, on swivel, five pronged aluminium base.
Bonhams 2006—upholstered in black leather, moulded plywood frame with rosewood veneer swivel aluminium base, ottoman with cherrywood veneer.

Notes on object from: Hollis, R. 1970. Modern Chairs:1918-1970. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"The next (670) chair was to continue even more markedly the trend towards use as the primary consideration. Eames, in fact, started by asking the question; which material provides the most comfortable resilience, and which upholstery allows this resilience to be most effective as well as having comfortable, perhaps even luxurious tactile properties? The answer was down-filled leather, and it is such a combination fastened to moulded plywood shells which makes the Lounge Chair. Equally significant to architecture has been Eames’s demonstration in furniture design…that ‘what for’ is fundamentally a more interesting question than ‘how’ and moreover with the great technological choice open, the most appropriate. In this sense Eames’s furniture contributes more to design thinking than ‘plug-in’, being based on an attitude more appropriate to the present high level of technology. Like the design of spacecraft, it starts from a performance specification and not the random exploitation of the seemingly possible. Michael Brawne: ‘The Wit of Technology’ Architectural Design September 1966"

CIRC.67-1969