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The potential of this Eames [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] chair was quickly realised. The Miller House was completed in 1957 and in 1958 the chair was released to the mass market as the Aluminium Group and has been on sale ever since. Times and circumstances move on and the design has seen some notable changes over the years. Though designed for both indoor and outdoor use, nowadays the chairs are used almost exclusively indoors and have become associated with corporate environments such as offices, boardrooms and the like: hence the unofficial title "the Eames Office Chair". To accommodate this change of environment, the original synthetic mesh was removed. It was designed for outdoor use and its removal allowed a wider variety of fabrics and upholstery to be fitted. New fittings have included different, more modern forms of mesh, fabric upholstery and, perhaps most famously, black padded leather.
Nowadays, the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Eames's legacy lives on in a range of chairs inspired by the Eames office chair. These new designs borrow many of the chair's key features while continuing the process of innovation that the original designers so valued. In describing [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] his design philosophy, Charles [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Eames used the parable [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] of a banana leaf; used as a simple dish in southern India, the banana leaf was gradually made more and more ornate, until some finally returned to just using the simple leaf.
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