Vitra Maharam Classic Pillow Dot Pattern

Design: Charles and Ray Eames, 1947

Concept: Many great architects and designers have over time concentrated on textiles and found opportunities to bring designs to life through colors, shapes and materials. This also applies to the couple Charles and Ray Eames, who in 1947 designed this elegant pillow. Through the New York textile company Maharam, they produced this unique pillow that to this day will dress any home, with its warm colors and timeless pattern.

About the designers: The couple Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (1907-1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Eames, born Kaiser, (1912-1988) were American designers. With each their background within resp. industrial furniture design (Charles) and art (Ray) they met in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. In 1941, they married and began experimenting with three-dimensional molded plywood, with the goal of producing affordable and comfortable chairs. Due to World War II, their experimental work was interrupted and only resumed in 1946, when they presented an exhibition of their furniture designs at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Then it picked up speed. They entered into an agreement with The Herman Miller Company, which began producing their furniture. In 1957, Vitra entered into a licensing agreement with Herman Miller and began production of Charles and Ray Eames' designs for Europe and the Middle East. It was the start of Vitra's furniture production, which is why the Eames couple has had a large influence on Vitra as a design company and their values and goals permeate even Vitra to this day.