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LKR-2

Ray and Charles, always striving for the best weight-strength ratio and the lowest possible cost, designed this upholstery option, which consumers liked to call the “Bikini Pad.” The upholstered wire chairs with two-piece upholstery cost 25% less than those with one-piece upholstery. LKR-2 stands for Low (height) K-wire (chair) Rod (base) 2 (2-piece upholstered pad).

Signed with a paper manufacturer’s label “Herman Miller Furniture Company Venice, California” on the underside of the shell.

Artifact
2015.1.38
Materials
Enameled steel, Naugahyde, shredded latex foam rubber
Artists / Designers
Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Manufacturer
Herman Miller, Inc. (American, founded 1923)
Dimensions
26 × 19 × 21 ¾ in / 66.04 × 48.26 × 55.25 cm
Weight
2.05 lb / 0.93 kg
Design Date
1951
Date
1959

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