Eames Lounge Chair TODAY Show Debut

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Eames Lounge Chair TODAY Show Debut

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A fascinating and rare television interview with Charles and Ray Eames on the TODAY Show in 1956. Featuring a collection of their en vogue furniture designs and the debut of one of their most renowned pieces, the lounge chair and ottoman.

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@captainthrall 6 жыл бұрын

This feels so awkward, but also much more authentic than today's over-produced television

@rozrogoff 11 жыл бұрын

What a great video. Thank you for posting this. My father bought one of the original Eames lounge chairs back in the late '50's or early '60's. My mother still has it and uses it every day. It's worn out but still very comfortable.

@GarrettWatts 5 жыл бұрын

This is maybe like the coolest video on earth probably :.-)

@TheFlowTime 11 жыл бұрын

i found one on a trash site !!! i restored it !!! beautiful !!!

@epaddon 2 жыл бұрын

This isn't the Today Show. It's the Home Show which was a different program entirely that aired at mid-day on NBC. It was hosted by Arlene Francis who does the interview.

@totalbliss1 5 жыл бұрын

I had no idea the original had feathers and down as cushion for the lounge and ottoman. No wonder it was so comfortable. That along with the now banned Rosewood makes the original a one of a kind and not at all what they make today.

@John-gf7kj 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic video

@00001Rob 8 жыл бұрын

8:11 for the preview of the chair

@ZnenTitan 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like they are being interviewed by 1950s-1960s TV personality Arlene Francis.

@youmongrel 4 жыл бұрын

I would say old timey video was lower quality but KZfaq makes episodes of Friends look the same way.

@toothpik00 11 жыл бұрын

"[Plastic] it's very practical, is it?"

@sureboy76 4 жыл бұрын

Today Show co-host Lee Meriwether

@chrisxdeboy 11 жыл бұрын

WHO WOULD THROW THAT AWAY!?

@JostenDooley 10 жыл бұрын

They tried to make it seem as if Charles did all of this himself.

@lemonslice2233 9 жыл бұрын

I don't think Ray felt at all comfortable at the interview, she was very shy.

@JostenDooley 9 жыл бұрын

LemonSlice of course she was uncomfortable because of how society was back then against women. How the stigma was a woman could not have done what a man can and well you know the rest.

@lemonslice2233 9 жыл бұрын

JostenDooley2 No I don't know the rest. I also see a woman as the interviewer, but I guess she's just a slave propagating a myth, right? People were very different back then, I don't see much similarity in today's men either, and I see them then just as much bound by women as women were by men, and just as much bound by the rules of society as women. And the males weren't the only ones keeping the tradition of male dominance, it was the women as well very much so and the generations of men and women before them. Women who broke the rules were just as much envied and hated by other women as they were alluring and captivating to men.

@ubiquitousbliss 8 жыл бұрын

+LemonSlice I see classy women. Some things should have stayed the same.

@PiranhaJaw22 8 жыл бұрын

that guy in the chair must be 5'0" for his head to hit so low on the lounge chair back

@ChairFurniture 9 жыл бұрын

This video is really interesting. I work for a company who sell reproductions of Charles and Ray Eames chairs. We are based in Bristol where our showroom houses many colours of the DSW and DAW chairs. We also sock a range of different legs. The Eames' wanted to create affordable chic chairs and our reproductions are inline with their original intentions. www.chair.furniture for more information.

@ducheau100 10 жыл бұрын

"she's behind the man, but terribly important" how condescending

@Branner 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, but despite Arlene Farncis's ridiculous (in retrospect) comments--well, it is 1956--history has secured Ray Eames's place beside her husband, not behind him.

@Margatroid 7 жыл бұрын

Watching such a warm, heartfelt and glowingly appreciative segment and then smugly boasting that it was "condescending" merely shows that you are mentally ill. Keep your sickness to yourself.

@ducheau100 7 жыл бұрын

Marga ur a big C. How about that?

@carlos31302 6 жыл бұрын

But it's the truth and that upsets feminazis like you.

@XanarchistBlogspot 4 жыл бұрын

She is an alpha to your gamma, so perhaps you ought not comment at the adult? Now that is condescending and deservedly so!