Charles Eames was not a licensed architect, but he had very progressive ideologies, which helped him make a stamp in design history. Charles was born in St. Louis in 1907. His wife and business partner Berenice Alexandra “Ray” Kaiser, an abstract painter who was born in Sacramento in 1912.
Both Charles and Ray practiced 20th Century design and were internationally recognized for their work in design, architecture, filmmaking, and for being in the furniture making community.
Early in Charles career he completed a fellowship at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He went on to be the school’s first director of the Industrial Design Program.
Ray Eames attended the Bennett School for girls in New York in 1933. From 1933 to 1939 she attended Hans Hofmann’s Painting School. Ray later became the founding member of the American Abstract Art Group. When her mother fell ill, she applied to the Cranbrook Academy of Art where she meets Charles. Charles and Ray Wed in Los Angeles, CA June of 1941.
“A key reason for the timelessness of Eames designs may be that [Charles and Ray] were not merely attracted to traditional art but went a step further and developed a way of designing that echoed, in an unpretentious way, the traditional processes they respected.”
For decades within the Eames Office, knowledge and experience continuously built upon previous projects, materials were seen for their inherent worth, and iteration honed all ideas into practical forms.
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