Violan Eames

Violan seat cushion for Eames Side Chair. For the first time, Metz Textil & Design is breaking with its own tradition - but the company from Aschau am Inn is doing so firstly for good innovative reasons and secondly with a clear green conscience: instead of using real wool felt, Metz Textil & Design is using "Violan", a purely vegetable felt developed over many years of fiddly work. The material feels just as high-quality as soft merino wool felt, but consists of plant residues and wood fibres. As a seat cover, the felt is sewn in two layers with decorative stitching, so that the cushion can be used on both sides. Equipped with a padded lining, the cushion has a good grip, but can therefore only be hand washed at 30 °C. In this specially cut form the formidable seat cushion adapts to the same seat shell of the original Eames Side Chair.