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American Decorative Arts
Public domain
Designer: Charles Eames, American, 1907–1978
Manufacturer: Herman Miller, Inc., American, founded 1923

LAR Chair

Designed 1949; manufactured c.1955

Tubular steel, molded polyester, rubber

31 5/8 × 25 × 21 5/8 in. (80.3 × 63.5 × 55 cm)
seat: 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Phillips, Class of 1942
1984.14.8
Geography: 
Made in Zeeland, Michigan
Status: 
By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Furniture
Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions 1984,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 3 (Winter 1986): 74.

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