In a 1956 cover story in Time magazine, Eero Saarinen said he was designing a collection to "clear up the slum of legs in the U.S. home." Later that year, he completed his Pedestal Table and Tulip Chair Collection and obliterated the "slum" by creating a base inspired by a drop of high- viscosity liquid...

In the early 1940s, Charles and Ray Eames used thin sheets of veneer and a bicycle-pump compressor, experimenting with wood-molding techniques...

The Panton chair was designed by Verner Panton in 1959.Serial production of the Panton Chair began in 1967. The one-piece Fiberglass chair was regarded as a sensation and received numerous awards...

In the early 1940, Charles & Ray Eames had the opportunity to develop new methods of molding / bending for the U.S. Navy during the World War II. They applied these techniques to their furniture design...

Bertoia was at Cranbrook during the period when Charles Eames was head of the Department of Experimental Design. The wire chairs of Bertoia appeared a year after the wire chair of Charles Eames. Although they are different in form, the basic concept is similar and both make use of the same wire material. This is the bar stool version of the Bertoia's wire chair...