Eames Dreams Up Chic Skateboards Inspired By Its Classic Designs
In celebration of Eames Office’s 80th anniversary, which took place last year, the design house teamed up with Australian skateboard hardware maker Globe to roll out a line of decks reflecting Eames’ esteemed history.
The first in the lineup is a trio of boards called the Eames Silhouette Series. Each deck represents one of the company’s products, such as the Eames Hang-It-All coat rack, the Plywood Sculpture, and the quirky Solar-Do-Nothing Machine which is made up of a myriad of colorful objects that represent the sun.
The boards are crafted out of Canadian maple and walnut veneer wood, with abstract art inspired by the classic designs screen-printed on the skateboards. On the back, a story detailing each piece of work is laser-etched on.
The last item in the collection stands out from its more natural-paletted siblings as it is a colorful diamond-paterned deck reminiscent of the Eames Toy. This version is made from Rosewood and Resin-7 hard-rock maple.
In creating these boards, Globe employed the same steam bend to shape them derived from the Eames 1941 Kazam! Machine and which was used in many of Charles and Ray Eames’ plywood furniture. As quoted by Fast Company, Dave Gitlin, Globe’s creative director, notes that if you look at the underside of the Eames Lounge and Ottoman, the base is almost identical to the decks.
With that, the choice is all yours if you’d like to hang these up on your wall and have a little bit of the Eames history showcased as skateboards or if you’d like to ride these works of art down at the half pipe.
The decks start at US$125 and can be found on Globe’s website.
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[via HiConsumption and Fast Company, images via Globe]
