The lounge chair designed by Charles & Ray Eames with matching ottoman is a Vitra classic that offers ultimate comfort and impresses with its design and high-quality workmanship.

Lean back for a few minutes without a guilty conscience and enjoy a little time out to recharge your batteries - no other armchair fulfils this wish to the same extent as the Eames Lounge Chair.

Material, finishes and recommendations for combining the colour variants

This is how we know the classic: the Eames Lounge Chair made of Santos rosewood plywood panels, covered in black leather and equipped with a polished base frame with black side sections.

To order the Eames Lounge Chair online that perfectly matches your furnishings, you can also customise it to your wishes and choose walnut or cherry wood instead of Santos rosewood. You can choose between twelve high-quality leather colours for the upholstery.

Vitra recommends choosing the polished base frame with black side sections for the two darker woods Santos rosewood and cherry. The completely polished or chrome-plated frame goes particularly well with the lighter walnut wood.

Experience luxury in any size: the Eames Lounge Chair in classic and XL versions

The classic version of the Eames Lounge Chair is optimised for people up to 1.80 m tall, while the new XL version has been specially developed for people over 1.80 m tall. The difference lies in the dimensions and height of the chair, which means that the XL version offers an ergonomically adapted sitting position for people who are taller. Both versions retain the iconic style and timeless comfort of the Eames Lounge Chair, but can be customised to meet the needs of different user groups.

Dimensions:

Armchair: W 84 x D 85 - 92 x H 89 x SH 38 cm
Stool: W 63 x D 56 x H 42 cm

Materials of the wooden shell

The seat and back shell are made of moulded plywood covered with high-quality wood veneer in Santos rosewood, walnut or cherry.

Santos rosewood

Santos rosewood is a particularly strong and resistant wood. Thanks to its dark colouring and smooth surface, the wood has a particularly elegant appearance.

Walnut wood

The walnut wood of the Eames Lounge Chair is black pigmented. Walnut is one of the most valuable furniture woods and is visually and qualitatively impressive.

As a white special edition - based on an idea by designer Hella Jongerius - the Eames Lounge Chair is also available online from us with a frame made of white pigmented walnut wood in combination with a white leather cover.

Cherry wood

This moderately hard wood is a popular furniture wood due to its warm colour and is often used for sophisticated interior design.

Black lacquered ash

Only available as a completely black special edition: covered in black premium leather, the lounge chair with black lacquered ash wood frame is part of the Vitra Black Edition.

Leather cover

The removable upholstery units are permanently covered in leather. There is a choice of Natural and Premium F leather.

Natural leather

Natural leather is a very soft cowhide, its natural grain gives it a natural appearance. Natural leather is open-pored, breathable and has a warm feel. It acquires a lively patina typical of leather with use. The thickness is 1.3-1.5 mm.

Premium F leather

Premium leather is a rather smooth cowhide with a flat grain pattern and a slight top sheen. Sustainability was always an important issue for Ray and Charles Eames. For this reason, Vitra is helping to further develop the age-old tradition of leather tanning with a view to sustainability: The new Premium F leather, tanned on the basis of olive tree leaves, is as free as possible from environmentally harmful substances and manufacturing processes. The leather comes from cattle from Denmark, southern Germany and Switzerland, which further minimises the carbon footprint of production. The leather has a pleasantly soft feel. The thickness is 1.1-1.3 mm.

Base and feet

The base of the Eames Lounge Chair consists of a swivel 5-star base and a die-cast aluminium backrest bracket. The accompanying ottoman is equipped with a non-rotating 4-star base. The sides of the base can be ordered online either in black with polished edges, completely polished or completely chrome-plated.

Glides

Please select plastic glides for carpeted floors and felt glides for hard floors to ensure optimum protection of the surface.

Included

To make the comfort experience perfect, Charles Eames designed a footstool with a non-rotating four-star base, the Lounge Chair Ottoman. This not only matches the Eames Lounge Chair perfectly visually, but also makes putting your feet up a stylishly presentable option.

Information on care, durability, guarantee and spare parts

To take optimum care of your lounge chair, we recommend cleaning the wooden surfaces with a soft damp cloth only. If necessary, use a mild cleaning agent. Please refer to the brochure supplied for cleaning the leather cover.

Vitra offers a 24-month guarantee on the Eames Lounge Chair. However, thanks to the careful selection of materials and high-quality workmanship, the Vitra chair is a piece of furniture that is often passed down through generations.

If you need spare parts for your lounge chair, we will be happy to get in touch with Vitra to procure them for you.

Traditional manufacturing and sustainability

The manufacturing standards of the Vitra Eames Lounge Chair have not changed since 1956: The original design by Charles & Ray Eames is still largely made by hand from three wooden shells - for the seat shell, backrest and headrest - assembled, upholstered and mounted on a swivelling five-star base. 47 work steps are necessary to make this design classic shine in all its splendour.

The original Eames Lounge Chair was made from Brazilian rosewood, which is now a protected species. The closest thing to the original lounge chair is the version subsequently realised in Santos rosewood, which is very similar to the original material. Vitra attaches great importance to the fact that all wood comes from sustainably managed forests.

Vitra fulfils both the ISO 90001 quality management standard and the ISO 14001 environmental management standard.

A classic of furniture design

Designed by Charles & Ray Eames in 1956, the Vitra Eames Lounge Chair has become a true design classic thanks to its popularity. Immediately after its creation, the lounge chair was awarded the Triennale Prize in Milan.

Charles Eames' intention was to create an alternative to the classic English club chair. The latter seemed too clunky and bulky to the designer - but Charles Eames did not want to do without the comfort that this armchair offered.

The result was the Vitra Lounge Chair, which breaks completely new ground in terms of appearance and comfort with its combination of plywood shells and leather upholstery. The Eames Lounge Chair makes it possible to maintain your posture even when sitting in a relaxed position.

At the time the Eames Lounge Chair was created, the trend was towards organic and homely shapes and colours - Charles & Ray Eames were also inspired by this. The generous armchair conveys a cosiness that, combined with timelessness and style, defines the image of the Eames Lounge Chair as a design classic.

It is no coincidence that the Eames Lounge Chair has been part of the famous design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1960. The legendary lounge chair naturally has a place of honour in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

Vitra's founding father, Willi Fehlbaum, discovered the Eames Lounge Chair in a shop window at the time and was so impressed that he immediately secured the licence to manufacture and sell the original design by Charles Eames. To this day, the original Eames Lounge Chair is only produced by Vitra. In our online shop, you have the guarantee that you are ordering an original Vitra Lounge Chair.