exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art; officially for sale at Sachs Quality Furniture, May to July 1950. The corresponding exhibition catalogue entitled Prize Designs for Modern Furniture outlines the winners of the competition and notes that the Eames chair is the first piece of furniture to be made of “fibre glass‌never before used in furniture.â€? The chair is praised for its smooth surface, virtual indestructibility, and the flexibility of design proposed by the series of bases available, prominently illustrated in the corresponding photograph. May 1950, the winning designs officially on sale at Sachs Quality Furniture in New York City. The collaboration between the Competition and Sachs seems to have been a good fit, as the President of the company Richard C. Sachs, was himself interested in the
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