Introducing the enhanced Eames® Turned Stool

The Eames® Turned Stool's brilliant adaptability, geometric design, and superb craftsmanship have made it a beloved heirloom in living rooms and lobbies all over the world. The stool's new name introduces the addition of sleek ebonized ash.

Ray Eames described the sculptural design of the stool that she and Charles created as being deep enough to produce a pleasant seat and shallow enough to balance a cup of coffee. The Eames Walnut Stool was first presented in walnut in 1960.
Ray Eames

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.”
The original Eames Walnut Stool was created by Charles and Ray Eames in 1960 as part of a larger design plan for three lobbies in the newly built Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Centre in New York, commissioned by chairman Henry Luce. Influenced by an African stool acquired while travelling, the small but significant design is displayed in the loving room of the Eames House in Los Angeles.
The design's systems-based approach is distinctly Eamesian. All stool variations have the same ends, but each pedestal has a different configuration of curves and angles in the middle. In addition to the Eames Executive Chair, a padded leather swivel chair that came to be known as the Time-Life Chair, Herman Miller also commercialized three of the forms that the Eames Office initially recommended. Herman Miller unveiled a fourth Eames form in 2023 and dubbed the stool the Eames Turned Stool in honour of the woodturning technique needed to create it.