DKR-1 “C”
This dining-height Wire Chair on a rod base has a well-preserved Harlequin pad designed by Ray Eames and Alexander Girard, Herman Miller’s director of textiles. The Harlequin Pads came in four different color combinations; this one is made of sections of yellow, green, red, blue, and black fabric. DKR-1 “C” stands for Dining (height) K-wire (chair) Rod (base) 1 (1-piece upholstered pad) C (one of four types of Harlequin patterns).
Signed with a paper manufacturer’s label “Herman Miller Furniture Company Venice, California” on the underside of the shell.
- Artifact
- 2015.1.37
- Materials
- Alexander Girard Harlequin upholstery, enameled steel, jute, oily cattle body hair, shredded latex foam rubber
- Artists / Designers
- Charles Eames, Ray Eames
- Manufacturer
- Herman Miller, Inc.
- Dimensions
- 32 × 19 × 21 in
- 81.3 × 48.3 × 53.3 cm
- Design Date
- 1954
- Date
- 1954
