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1972
                                                
Herman Miller
                                                                                                                        
Eames Secretarial Chair 1972







Product Number  EC228







28 3/4" H by 25" W by 25" D


Seat height adjustable 16 1/2" - 19"


From  a 1970s Herman Miller catalogue:  "Bright polished cast aluminum  (contract) base.  Parchment (this example), greige or black fiberglass  reinforced plastic seat and back with matching vinyl edge.  Black or  bright polished chrome (this example)plated back support and back  adjustment knob.  360 degree swivel base.  Back provides 2 3/8" height  adjustment and 2 3/8" depth adjustment.  Bright chrome plated seat  height adjustment handwheel.  Available upholstered in nilo, vinyl (this  example) or hopsak."


The two-piece secretarial  chairs made and sold by Herman Miller from 1971 to 1981.  We don't have  the exact production number at this time, but have observed that very  few of these chairs appear on the market, which suggests that not many  were produced.


All of the other Eames plastic chairs which were equipped with universal or contract cast aluminum bases utilize a  different spider, made of cast aluminum.


J.F. Chen Collection







This chair is on display in the Getty/Pacific Standard Time exhibition: COLLECTING EAMES THE JF CHEN COLLECTION.


In Additional Notes and Images you will find some other details and also a video of editor/curator Daniel Ostroff talking about this chair at the exhibition.


                        
                

                

                    

                        

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Underside of Eames Secretarial Chair


The stamped steel “spider” on the underside of these chairs is unique to  this design, and is unlike the “spider” used on other Eames plastic and  wire chairs.


 


Close up of Eames Secretarial Chair




This is the first Eames plastic chair without shock mounts.  The function fulfilled on other


Eames chairs by shockmounts is addressed on this chair with raised areas of molded plastic.


This  feature anticipates the development of a similar feature on the Eames  plastic chairs


which were re-introduced in 2006 and are available  currently from Herman Miller and Vitra.



                                    

                                
                            

                        

                        

                        

                            
    
                            

                        

                    

                

                                                                    
                

            

        

                
        

    

        
        
        

            

            

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