DESIGNED BY FRANK GEHRY IN 1980, PRODUCED BY VITRA IN 1987

Gehry's investigation of laminated corrugated cardboard as a new material for furniture construction began in 1969 and resulted in the 'Easy Edges' series of 1972, a group of furniture intended as a low-cost seating solution suitable for mass production. This series was followed in the early 1980s by 'Experimental Edges', a series of one- off chairs conceived as 'art furniture'. These chairs with roughly finished edges were less concerned with function than with the expressive potential of the material used. The 'Little Beaver' chair evolved directly from this Experimental Edges series; its popularity led to the design being modified for limited factory production from 1986.
See: The Architecture of Frank Gehry, The Walker Art Centre, 1986, exh. cat. pp. 62-5.
Fiell, (1000 Chairs), p. 586.