In addition to furniture for the La Fonda del Sol restaurant, Charles Eames designed iconic chairs for the offices of Time-Life which have become known as Time-Life Chairs. Eames designed them as a favor to Henry Luce, who had allowed Eames to use photos from the Time-Life archives for the pavilion he designed at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. The chairs remain in production and popular to this day, though the original design with four legs at the base has been revised to include a fifth leg for stability.
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