Charles and Ray Eames
Modernism - architecture - Jet Age - space age - furniture - industrial design - mid-century modern - design - 1950s - 1960s - USA
Eames chairs
Biographies
Via Functionalfate.org, a weblog that documents design, in particular the white monoblock. --http://www.functionalfate.org.
Charles and Ray Eames
Perhaps the most notable couple in the history of the field of industrial design. Americans, Charles (1907-1978) and Ray Eames (1912-1988) made major contributions to the emergence of industrial design as a mature discipline. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames [Sept 2005]
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames : A Legacy of Invention (1997) - Albrecht Donald
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames : A Legacy of Invention (1997) - Albrecht Donald [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Amazon.com Published on the occasion of a major international traveling exhibition organized by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (holders of the two richest Eames collections in the world), this comprehensive volume is a testament to the Eameses' belief that good design could improve people's lives. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the prolific husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames designed furniture, buildings, exhibitions, and interiors, and made films. They are perhaps best known for the form-fitting chairs that were mass-produced using the same techniques the Eameses developed in their first apartment. Taking a multifaceted approach to their multifaceted careers, this comprehensive, clothbound volume with French folds includes a filmography, making clear the pair's profound influence on the visual vernacular of the 20th century. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames practiced design at its most virtuous and its most expansive. Their furniture, toys, buildings, films, graphics, exhibitions, and books all aimed to improve society-not only functionally but also culturally and intellectually. The essays in this handsome and generously illustrated volume examine the Eameses' projects in the contexts of science, corporate patronage, and politics as well as those of modern design, architecture, and art. --from the publisher via Amazon.com
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