PLYWOOD FOLDING SCREEN

DATE - 1946

The Eames Plywood Screen, aka FSW or Folding Screen Wood, had its origins in Charles and Ray Eames’s earliest plywood experiments. The folding screens were made in a variety of premium face wood veneers, in a height of 34 inches, making them suitable as counter screens, keeping children or pets safe and secure, and 68 inches, which made for exceptional room dividers and backdrops. As with their molded plywood furniture, the exposed natural wood grains of the veneer are all the decoration these need.

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Before they advanced to molding plywood with compound curves, Charles and Ray at first molded u-shaped curved plywood sheets.
The depth of the u-shape was such that these could stand on end without any additional support. From there, Charles and Ray progressed to designing screens with u-shaped plywood sheets in two different heights, joined to one another with flexible canvas hinges. Not only did this produce screens that can stand on end on their own, when not in use, the screen panels could fold on top of one another, and in this nested form, took up very little floor space.

Originally produced between 1946 and 1955, in the late 1990s, both of our partners brought these designs back into production. The new ones are made with a more durable, synthetic, material, in place of the original canvas hinges.

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