CHARLES AND RAY EAMES
Charles and Ray Eames, the iconic American duo, transformed the world of furniture and design like few before or since.
The two designers met when Ray worked as an assistant for Charles and Eero Saarinen on their submission to MoMA’s “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition, for which they won two first prizes. In the summer of 1941 the couple married and relocated to Los Angeles where they settled in a Richard Neutra-designed apartment. During World War II they entered the field of plywood manufacturing, producing aircraft parts and leg splints with the help of a small staff and funded by the U.S. Navy. Out of these early collaborations they founded the Eames Office in Venice, California which they went on to operate from 1943–1988.
Over the ensuing four decades, the couple established themselves as some of the most influential industrial designers of the century, producing furniture, films, photography, exhibitions, and occasionally architecture.
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