With the application of new materials and the concept of interchangeable bases, Eames achieved his goal of “simple yet comfortable” with “an inherent rightness” for the DSW (Dining Height Side Chair Wood Base).

Like Marcel Breuer’s work with tubular steel a few decades earlier Eames’s experiments with a single seat shell (first wood then metal and fibreglass) produced chairs in which the appearance is the result of how they were made.