Happy Birthday, Charles

Staff -- Interior Design, 9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Herman Miller celebrated the centennial of Charles Eames's birth by challenging designers and manufacturers to make over the LCW, the 1945 plywood "potato chip" chair designed by him and his wife, Ray. Auctioning the reinterpretations at the company's New York showroom raised $24,000 for the Peace House Foundation, which educates East African children affected by AIDS.

1. The Trip the Light Fantastic chair by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Michael Gabellini and partner Kimberly Sheppard with designer John Houshmand.

2. Freeman's auction house vice president of English and Continental furniture and decorative arts Sebastian Clarke.

3. Hilda Longinotti, architecture and design liaison for Herman Miller, cheering on the crowd.

4. An Eames Chair in Sheep's Clothing, aka custom shearling from Edelman Leather.

5. Interior Design Hall of Famer Jamie Drake accompanying his Liquid Silver chair.

6. The groovy Kaleidoscope by Todd Oldham.

7. Interior Design Hall of Famer Clodagh showing off Royal Howda.

8. Luna Textiles president and CEO Anna Hernandez and her slipcover concept, A Chair and Its Wardrobe.

9. Richärd + Bauer's Eames Flyer.

10. The Rockwell Group's Chair Cozy, ultimately snagged by Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen.

11. For Zen masters only, the Pincushion by Pentagram Design partner Paula Scher with designers Nikola Gottschick and Andrea Zlanabitnig.

12. Janine James, founder and creative director of the Moderns, and her Opportunity chair.

13. Maharam's Dot Pattern LCW.