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CHARLES EAMES said it best: “We don’t do ‘art’ — we solve problems.”1
To buy furniture in 1950, you had to choose between affordable and enduring, between rugged and fashionable. Charles and Ray designed a chair that was all the above and sold it for $20.95.2 They called it the LCW.3
The LCW embodies the Eames’ obsession with simplicity in material and method. “We want to make the best for the most for the least,” they said.4 The design was revolutionary: in 1999, Time magazine called the LCW “the best design of the century.”5 Today, you can buy a brand new LCW from Herman Miller (the officially licensed manufacturer of Eames products) for $1,195.
Or, you can buy a chair called the “Fathom” from a company called Modway for $145.
Functionally and aesthetically, the chairs are identical.
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