LTR Occasional Table Charles Eames 1950

In the late 1940s, Charles Eames noted all the "fantastic things being made of wire." That fascination led Charles & Ray Eames to develop a mass-production technique for simultaneously welding wire rods.

Characteristically, the Eames Wire-Base Table is remarkable for the elegance achieved using simple, practical materials. Its scaled-down profile shows the influence of Japanese forms and households based on an aesthetic ideal of simplicity, serenity and restraint. In fact, the Eames used these wire-base tables in their home during a tea ceremony that included Isamu Noguchi and Charlie Chaplin. The table provides a handy surface for a stack of books or a place to rest a drink.

Coffee table steel wire. Plywood top laminate veneer.

LTR=Low Table Rod Base