Vitra | The Eames Collection: Forever Modern
New 2025 colours for the Eames Collection
When you think of timeless design, it’s hard not to think of Charles and Ray Eames. The husband-and-wife duo didn’t just design furniture; they shaped a vision of modern living that balanced function, playfulness, and beauty. More than just designers, they were visionaries who believed furniture should serve everyday life with beauty, function, and joy. Their work wasn’t about trends — it was about shaping a way of living that feels as relevant today as it did over half a century ago.
For decades, Vitra has been the caretaker of this legacy. Working closely with the Eames family, Vitra has not only preserved the integrity of Charles and Ray’s designs but also allowed them to evolve as lifestyles, technologies, and values shift. The result is a collection that feels as fresh today as it did when it first appeared — a true testament to the Eames’ belief that “the details are not the details; they make the design.”
In line with this sustainable vision, Vitra is also rethink the materials it uses. To shorten supply chains and reduce reliance on overused woods such as oak, the company is expanding its range of European-grown options. Alongside oak and ash, the collection now features cherry, chestnut, and walnut — each bringing its own warmth and character to the furniture.
The Eames Collection is the first within Vitra’s portfolio to introduce these new woods, offering a fresh natural aesthetic to familiar classics. At the same time, tradition is carefully preserved: Palisander from Bolivia remains available for the Eames Lounge Chair, honouring the material that Charles and Ray Eames originally chose for one of their most iconic creations.
The Eames Collection has never been about nostalgia. It has always been about possibility — about what design can do for the way we live. With the 2025 Collection, Vitra shows that honouring a legacy doesn’t mean standing still; it means carrying forward the spirit of innovation and adaptability that made it timeless in the first place.
These changes go beyond material updates. Today, our homes are more versatile than ever: part living space, part workplace, part retreat. The renewed Eames Collection reflects this shift. Pieces are designed to move seamlessly between different roles, offering flexibility without losing timeless elegance.
Design classics can easily become museum pieces — admired, but not lived with. What makes the Eames Collection special is its ability to adapt. By reworking the collection for 2025, Vitra ensures these icons aren’t frozen in time but remain part of everyday life.
In this way, the Eames vision continues: design that responds to human needs, that evolves alongside culture, and that always finds a way to feel fresh, relevant, and alive.
The New updates in the Collection reminds us that great design is never finished. It continues to evolve, just like the lives it was created to support. Forever modern.
LTR Table
In collaboration with the Eames Office the materials of the LTR table have also been updated. Alongside the powder-coated versions, the chrome-plated base has been replaced by stainless steel. The solid wood table tops now come in walnut from Europe and chestnut, which compliment the existing version in dark oak. The table tops are also offered in laminated wood with a surface made of the natural material linoleum in three new colours, jade, dark brick and smoke blue.
Hang It All
The original multi-hued composition of the Hang It All was conceived by Ray Eames. Vitra has used documents held in the Vitra Design Museum and the Eames palette to create four new editions, a neutral Hang It All in a reduces spectrum of Eames colours, another in cool tones, one in warm hues plus an understated warm white version. The surfaces of the wooden balls are now sealed with water based lacquers.
EA Chair Group
Vitra has also expanded the choice of colours for the powder coating of the Aluminium and Soft Pad Groups, in addition to the existing black version, the chairs are now also available in a beautiful dark Bordeaux and soft chalk coloured finish making them easier to integrate into home situations as well as use in a formal office.
House Birds
The previous models in black and walnut have been joined by a beautiful light cotton white Ash wood bird.The surface treatment has also been modified, a water based lacquer is now used for the Eames House Bird in black, pigmented oil for the cotton white version and dark pigmented oil for the walnut version. The wood grain of the birds is now more visible giving a softer and more refined look. The Walnut version has also been changed from American sourced wood to European.