1940-1949

Famous Modern Furniture Timeline 1940 – 1949

Things are starting to hot up in the 20th Century Furniture arena during this period between 1940 – 1949

Eero Saarinen addressed the need for comfort with his Womb Chair, engulfing the sitting person and hugging them. The Eameses started making their molded plywood timber furniture a good example of this is the LCM chair it was an easily mass produced low cost item of furniture, and this form of mass production was one of the areas of design that Charles and Ray Eames focused on.

Fiberglass was a new material that was being used for furniture, the Womb Chair was fiberglass then upholstered and the DAR was molded fiber glass reinforced polyester to form the seat and shell and then fixed to a metal rod base with rubber shock mounts. La Chaise was definitely a work of art in fiberglass by the Eameses.

Famous Modern Classic Furniture for the period of 1940 to 1949

1946 Womb Chair Eero Saarinen

1946 Basic Storage Components- George Nelson

1946 Plywood Coffee Table Eames

1945/46 LCM Lounge Chair MetalEames

1946 LCW Lounge Chair WoodEames

1946 406 (Pension) Cantilevered ArmchairAlvar Aalto

1948 La ChaiseEames

1949 DAR ChairEames

Continue the timeline for other classic modern furniture dates below.

1900 – 1909

1910 – 1919

1920 – 1929

1930 – 1939

1950 – 1959

1960 – 1969

1970 – 1979

1980 – 1989

1990 – 1999

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