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EAMES - Charles and Ray Eames
EAMES - Charles and Ray Eames Charles and Ray Eames are without doubt best remembered as two of the most influential furniture designers of the 20th century.
Together they created a new post-war vision of modern furniture and interiors that soon spread internationally. Their use of new materials and the concept of the open living space inspired a new relationship between design and lifestyle. Charles Eames was trained as an architect in his home town of St Louis, missouri, he briefly set up in architectural practice only to return to architectural education on a Fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1936. It was while at the Academy that Eames encountered two individuals who were to become very important in both his life and career. The first was Eero Saarinen with whom Eames collaborated with on a number of architectural and design projects , and the other was a woman who was studying in the weaving Department, Ray Kaiser - she had worked with the painter Hans Hofmann in New York between 1933 and 1939 and had been a founding member, since 1936 of a group called the American Abstract Artists.
In 1941 Charles and Ray married and moved to California, in 1944 they set up a practice that remained active until Charles's death in 1978. Although the role that Ray played in his work is only now being uncovered, it is clear that her contribution should not be underestimated, as they worked collaboratively on many projects. Birch plywood chairs for Herman Miller 1946, the fibreglass chair in 1950 and the ultimate icon of classic 20th Century design the Lounge Chair and Ottoman 1956, which was originally a one-off birthday present for the film director Billy Wilder, veneered in Rosewood with black leather upholstery.

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