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Ray und charles eames. Married in 1941, the couple soon established a studio in venice beach, california, and produced the curvy and colorful eames chair after developing an innovative technique for molding plywood. Charles and ray believed a design to be successful when it catered to how people are similar to one another instead of addressing our idiosyncrasies. Charles said that chairs should be designed not for how people should sit, but instead for how people do sit.

Team of this enthusiastic couple was always seen in matching outfits and same poses. They also worked in education, making public exhibitions on science and technology topics, sometimes in partnership with ibm. Exterior view of eames’ house shows how it nudges into a hillside, is fronted by eucalyptus trees.

Ray eames at home in california, 1950. This groundbreaking monograph charts the history of their inspiring and prolific world and brings together key works and ideas explored at the eames office throughout its extraordinary. Louis and designed a number of houses and churches in collaboration with various partners.

Their collaborative oeuvre contributed to the development of postwar. An eames anthology collects for the first time the writings of the esteemed american architects and designers charles and ray eames, illuminating their marriage and professional partnership of fifty years. Eames plastic side chair dsw stuhl vitra quick ship;

In the early 1950s, the eameses extended their interest and skill in photography into. (courtesy of steve cabella) an original charles eames photograph of the office, recorded and stamped on the reverse. They also worked in the fields of.

Ray and charles working on a conceptual model for the exhibition mathematica, 1960, photograph. Stuhl charles eames v herman miller vitra dsr; Charles and ray eames lcw stuhl 177 00;