Eames Chair Art Auction

 Herman Miller-sponsored charity auction to raise money for the Peace House Foundation. Each of the eleven participating designers and design firms were given an Eames’ classic “potato chip chair” to modify.

PHF spokesperson Bari Trontz told AssociatedContent.com that "the $24,000 raised at this event will support the Peace House Foundation in their efforts to educate Tanzania's most vulnerable children. The success of the Herman Miller event," she added, "is a testament to the enormous compassion and generosity on behalf of the design community in New York."

One of the designers for Pentagram created a Pincushion chair that was inspired by a typeface she designed called Pincushion. “We wanted to think of the object as something soft that could be punctured, in this case, with large hatpins, giving it the feeling of a pincushion” she said. “In our expression, the chair becomes a purely visual, rather than a utilitarian object.”

Other participants included Ayse Birsel, David Rockwell,Maharam and Todd Oldham.  Celebrated designer Oldham's work received the highest bid-$3,000-of all the completed chair designs,an image is shown below.

I haven't been able to track down images of the other designs but will try and do so shortly.

Image Credits + Copyright: Herman Miller