DCM (Dining Chair Metal)
Designed 1946
Charles Eames
American, 1907-1978
Decorative Arts
The DCM is one of the most important and influential chairs of the postwar period. Although its official name mundanely refers to its use and materials—dining chair, metal (base)—it is commonly known as the “Potato Chip” chair because of its crisp, curving shapes. Growing out of wartime efforts to create a splint that conformed to the contours of the leg, this chair too is “organic” because its function is to support, and mimic, the shape of the human body.
- Maker/Artist
- Eames, Charles
- Classification
- Furniture
- Formatted Medium
- Birch plywood, metal
- Locations
- Place manufactured: Zeeland, Michigan, United States
- Dimensions
- 29 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (74.3 x 49.5 x 57.8 cm)
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- X748
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
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