The riotous crowd of lunchgoers sits at steel-topped tables on plywood chairs; rock music pours from speakers.

Even though the plywood chair was a compromise of the Eames' vision to create a single shell chair it constituted a successful design.

The room has the feel of a 21st-century ocean liner, with industrial lighting, enormous plate-glass windows and brightly hued plywood chairs.

Since then, he has also designed chairs for the restless - an ongoing series of springy molded plywood chairs.

Born in the west, transistor radios, plastic robots and plywood chairs are among the scores of products significantly transformed by Japan.

The plywood chair here was made in his family's furniture factory in Northern Ireland.

Q: Was updating the molded plywood chair a longtime wish?

The iconoclastic English designer came up with a double plywood chair where one chair can be stored inside the other.

Lot 88, for example, is a bent plywood chair that is held together with metal fasteners.

He moved on to contour the spry creature that was his famous plywood chair.