Vitra Eames EDU Desk Black/ Orange/ Blue/ Birch

Design: Charles and Ray Eames, 1949

Concept: Put your creativity first with the EDU desk designed by Charles and Ray Eames. This stylish, all-in-one design integrates a solid yet lightweight plywood board with a powder-coated metal frame. The frame has sleek transverse braces that add visual interest to the already charming desk. The compact and practical storage compartments ensure that you always have space to place the small items on your desk. The innovative lightweight structure is based on techniques from industrial production and flows well together in the EDU desk.

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.