FSW (Folding Screen Wall)

Artist:Charles EamesRay Eames (Bernice Alexandra Kaiser)Molded Plywood Division, Eames Products CompanyHerman Miller, Inc.

Medium: Laminated plywood, canvas

Geograhical Locations:

• Zeeland, Michigan, United States

Dates:Designed 1946; Manufactured 1946–1955

Dimensions: 67 9/16 x 101 3/4 x 3 1/16 in. (171.6 x 258.4 x 7.8 cm)

Collections:

• Decorative Arts and Design

Museum Location: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

Exhibitions:

• Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
• Thinking Big: Recent Design Acquisitions
• Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams

Accession Number: 2000.75

Image: 2000.75_SL1.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Folding screen of black-stained, molded plywood and canvas. Ten panel screen of identical u-shaped panels held together by full-length natural-colored canvas strips that serve as hinges allowing the piece to be accordion-folded to the width of a single panel. Condition: good.

Brooklyn Museum