Vitra Occasional LTR Bedside Table Smoked Oak/ Chrome

Design: Charles & Ray Eames, 1950

Concept: Vitra's Occasional LTR bedside table is a small, elegant and versatile table designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1950. The name LTR comes from the words Low Table Rod, which sums up its structure and size well. Occasional LTR can be used as a small side table or a bedside table, and with its small size will bring finesse and degree of detail to the room. The bedside table can be used by itself or put together in a group of several tables and is available with chrome-plated or black powder-coated steel wire as a frame and with many different table tops that differ in both colors and materials.

About the designers: Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (1907-1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Eames, née Kaiser, (1912-1988) were American designers. Each with their own background within the respective 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 form-stressed plywood, with the goal of producing affordable and comfortable chairs. Due to the Second World War, 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. After that it took off. They entered into an agreement with The Herman Miller Company, who 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 have had a large influence on Vitra as a design company, and their values ​​and objectives permeate Vitra even to this day.