Charles and Ray Eames designed their lounge chair and ottoman for Herman Miller in 1956, and the couple’s masterpiece became an instant classic of midcentury design as models 670 and 671.

‘We challenged ourselves with what we could do,’ says creative designer Aleck Jones. ‘We looked at about ten different material approaches for the chair.’ The jumping off point was the 1956 Eames ...

Alas, the Eames were too busy innovating what would become one of their most iconic pieces—the Plastic Molded Chair—and didn’t have the bandwidth to dive into this project. The Galaxy lamp ...