It's all in the detail

Photo via Eames Office

This wonderful picture of an aluminum group chair upholstered in Alexander Girard hopsack requires little introduction and no actual words, except perhaps this equally wonderful quote written by Charles and Ray Eames …

"The details are not the details;  they make the product."

why?

So, a DKW-2 dating from 1952 with its original base and original two-piece bikini covered in hopsack designed by Alexander Girard. So far, so good.  But here's the thing ... we had to look up what 'DKW' stood for.  We'd guessed it was D for dining and W for wood (as in the dowel base) or possibly wire .... but then what of the K?  It turns out the W does in fact refer to the dowel base ... and the K relates to the wire seat.

So K stands for wire.  Why?  Why K?  Anyone?  Oh, and just so we've crossed all the Ts and dotted all the Is, the 2 - just in case you were wondering - relates to the two-piece upholstered pad.

Images:  Just In Modern