Battle of the Airport Furniture Designers

Whether it’s possible to improve upon Herman Miller’s Tandem Sling Seat (above), the streamlined leather and chrome paragon of airport seating designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1962 for Chicago’s O’Hare International, is not the primary concern of the highly competitive world of airport furniture designers. “The trouble with today’s design is it’s hugely fashionable,” Rodney Kinsman of OMK Associates told the Wall Street Journal in the paper’s A-Hed exploration into the world of airport seating.