Eames Nauga Monsters

Vintage Eames Nauga Monster

Vintage Eames Nauga Monster Ad

In 1960, Charles Eames designed the “Nauga Mon­ster” to pro­mote the launch of Uniroyal’s Nau­gahyde brand of arti­fi­cial leather (or “pleather”). The cam­paign humor­ously claimed that Nau­gahyde was obtained from the shed skin of an ani­mal known as a “Nauga.”

Accord­ing to the cam­paign, Nau­gas shed their skin with­out harm to them­selves (unlike the tra­di­tional method of obtain­ing ani­mal hides).

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  1. Nau­gahyde, if you didn’t know is named after a town in CT named Nau­gatuck. The main drag through town is Rub­ber Ave.

    Jessica05/6/10 @ 10:48 pm
  2. I didn’t know that, thanks for the info :)

  3. I didn’t know that, thanks for the info :)



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