Lost Furniture Design Classics: La Fonda Bar Stool by Charles and Ray Eames
...In 1959 Alexander Girard was commissioned to design the interior of the New York restaurant La Fonda del Sol, a commission for which Charles and Ray Eames designed the seating... Housed on the ground floor of the, then, new Time & Life building on Manhattan's Rockefeller Platz, a building for whom Charles and Ray Eames designed three lobbies1, a project which saw them develop the eponymous Lobby Chair as a fusion of their Lounge Chair and Aluminium chairs, and also develop a family of walnut stools-cum-side-tables2, La Fonda del Sol was conceived as a Central and South American themed restaurant, a restaurant which sought to bring not only the foods and flavours and spices of Central and South America3 to New York, but the ambiance, the, if one so will, flair of Central and South America...