CHARLES & RAY EAMES 'LAX' ARMCHAIRS FOR HERMAN MILLER

A near mint-condition pair of lemon yellow, second-generation, X-base LAX lounge chairs designed by Charles and Ray Eames for HERMAN MILLER, 1950-53. CHARLES & RAY EAMES were an American married team of industrial designers whose creativity and drive helped to shape America's 20th century.  Their lives and work represented many of the most defining developments of the period:  the West Coast's coming-of-age, the shift from making goods to producing information, the global reach of American culture.  The Eameses saw modern design as an agent of social change; their evolution from furniture designers to cultural ambassadors speaks not only to their boundless talent but also to an overlap between their interests and the national agenda.  In a time of uniquely shared objectives, they partnered with the federal government and top businesses to lead the charge to modernize post-war America.  (No need to belabor the well-recorded story of their enduring contribution.  Suffice it to say t