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The aim of the exhibition was to promote modern furniture design that explored new materials and industrial manufacturing methods. Industrial manufacture was seen as the only way to meet the huge demand for new furniture in Germany – caused by vast wartime destruction of housing and the post-war arrival of large numbers of refugees from Germany’s eastern territories.\n\r\nEiermann did not have experience in the field of industrial design and had previously only designed furniture to be produced in small numbers. In the spring of 1949, in preparation for the exhibition, Eiermann began to collaborate with the rolling blind and furniture factory Wilde + Spieth to develop plywood furniture that could be produced on an industrial scale. One of the products they created was the model SE 42 chair which was shown in the exhibition and became the first of Eiermann’s designs to go into serial production.  The chair very directly re-uses the Eames’ 1946 design for the DCW (dining chair wood). It takes almost exactly the same form as the DCW with only a few minor adjustments – it has three legs instead of four and the fixings are different to the Eames’ design (although the Eameses had designed three legged versions of their chairs which never went into production).\r\n","physicalDescription":"Three-legged chair with moulded 7-ply beech plywood seat and back with 11-ply beech plywood frame. The seat and back have gentle curves that are moulded to fit the human body. They are attached to the frame by screws and rubber mounts. The screws go directly through the plywood and rubber parts and can be seen on the seat and backrest.\r\n\r\nThe frame is made of three pieces of moulded plywood; one piece forming the two front legs, another the back leg, and the third forming the support for the seat and back. 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With some minor adjustments,\r\nit takes almost exactly the same form as\r\nthe Eames’s DCW (dining chair wood),\r\nwhich was designed and manufactured at\r\nthe same time as the DCM. Such close\r\nimitation highlights the huge popularity\r\nand influence of Eames furniture around\r\nthe world.\n\r\nDesigned by Egon Eiermann (1904–70)\r\nManufactured by Wilde + Spieth\r\nEsslingen, Germany\r\nMoulded 7-ply beech plywood seat and back with 11-ply\r\nbeech plywood frame, rubber mounts, metal fittings\n\r\nV&A: W.8–2017","date":{"text":"2017","earliest":"2017-01-01","latest":"2017-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["W.8-2017"],"accessionNumberNum":"8","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":2017,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-01-09","recordCreationDate":"2016-12-19","availableToBook":true}}