Daydreaming about fashion, a future matriarch of modern design spent much of her youth sketching clothes and making paper dolls. Bernice “Ray” Kaiser saw herself as an artist. After studying in New ...
Willis prototype chair (center) that inspired the iconic fiberglass chair form designed by Charles and Ray Eames, part of the collection at the Henry Ford Museum loaned to a traveling career-survey ...
“Eames chairs have an expression of optimism to them. I think it is the technical perfection and emotional aspects that make them so inspiring to designers today,” muses Jolanthe Kugler, curator at ...
An Interactive Online Exhibition Explores Ray Eames’s Indelible Impact on Midcentury American Design
Despite public declarations made by Charles Eames defending the equal role his wife Ray played in shaping their shared practice, she was rarely given the credit she deserved. The Eames Institute of ...
Oliver Peoples has launched a new line of eyeglasses inspired by Gio Ponti's work—and Reebok just did something similar. Charles and Ray Eames were masters of innovation. This was the secret to their ...
Some things designed and built by our fellow humans are so much a part of our visual landscape that, even if they haven’t been around forever, it takes an effort of will to imagine a world without ...
Eames is an evocative word: iconic furniture; a power couple for the ages; rule-makers and breakers; playful partners; the very definition of Good Design. For Kristin Damrow, Eames is also synonymous ...
The Eames House, built in 1949 in the Pacific Palisades, is considered one of the most important postwar residences in the U.S. The National Historic Landmark celebrates its 70th anniversary this year ...
In the legions of design power couples, Ray and Charles Eames were as accomplished as they come. In 1946, Ray and Charles Eames were among the winners in a fabric design competition that was organized ...
If you know anything about mid-century modern design in America, it's probably a name: Eames. And if you know a little more, you might put two names along with Eames: Charles and Ray. What many people ...
In 1949, Charles and Ray Eames designed and built their home on a bluff overlooking the ocean in the Pacific Palisades. Features of their house and studio are now ubiquitous, but 70 years ago, they ...
Mingei’s exhibition, Inside the Design Center brings to life a vignette of mid-twentieth century interior, lighting, and furniture design, featuring pieces by significant California designers, ...
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