Lot Essay
See footnote to previous lot.
In June 1946, Evans Products Company granted Herman Miller the exclusive rights to market and distribute the Eames plywood chairs from October of that year. The initial plan was to show the chairs at the January 1947 furniture markets and to immediately fill orders from a warehouse stock built up in the last months of 1946. This strategy included making the chairs available first to architects and designers on a limited basis until full production could be achieved in mid-1947. In April 1947, all plywood production at Evans' Moulded Plywood Division in Venice ceased, and the plant was moved to Grand Haven, Michigan. Full production of the chairs began in the summer of 1947 under the control of Evans Products Company.
The lable on the present LCW dates it to the early period of Evans production in Venice, (i.e. mid-late 1946), prior to the involvement of Herman Miller in the marketing and distribution of the Eames range
See: Neuhart, p. 72-75.
In June 1946, Evans Products Company granted Herman Miller the exclusive rights to market and distribute the Eames plywood chairs from October of that year. The initial plan was to show the chairs at the January 1947 furniture markets and to immediately fill orders from a warehouse stock built up in the last months of 1946. This strategy included making the chairs available first to architects and designers on a limited basis until full production could be achieved in mid-1947. In April 1947, all plywood production at Evans' Moulded Plywood Division in Venice ceased, and the plant was moved to Grand Haven, Michigan. Full production of the chairs began in the summer of 1947 under the control of Evans Products Company.
The lable on the present LCW dates it to the early period of Evans production in Venice, (i.e. mid-late 1946), prior to the involvement of Herman Miller in the marketing and distribution of the Eames range
See: Neuhart, p. 72-75.