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eames era chairs onlineCreativity is the business and culture of California. Motion pictures, high technology, aerospace, wine, fashion, industrial design… these leading areas of enterprise within California depend upon creativity. And so, it’s not surprising that California’s most famous figures were first recognized for their creativity… Walt Disney… Steve Jobs… Howard Hughes… Robert Mondavi… Levi Strauss… Charles and Ray Eames.
eames era chairs online
Charles and Ray Eames? Though you may not recognize them, countless monuments to their achievements are found in schools, homes, airports and office buildings across America; they are the many stacks of multi-colored molded plastic chairs, luxurious lounge chairs, tandem airport sling seats and polished aluminum office chairs designed by this creatively prolific Southern California couple.
While the Eameses are remembered principally for the many chairs they designed, they also made groundbreaking contributions in architecture, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts. Scores of their most-influential creations can be seen, sat upon, learned about and purchased at the “Eames Office” a gallery and store in Santa Monica. For appreciators of fine design, the Eames Office is more than a furniture store. Though nearly all of the most important Eames chairs and sofas (including several rare examples) are displayed and sold there, the store is more fundamentally a tribute to the remarkable lives of two American originals.
Ray and Charles Eames met in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where Charles was experimenting with molded plywood, as head of the industrial design department, and Ray was a design student. The next year, they married and moved to California where they believed, that in anonymity, they would have time to explore how to mass produce molded plywood into compound curves. Those experiments were put to practical use in World War II when the Eameses produced 150,000 molded plywood leg splints for the U.S. Navy, as well as stretchers and experimental aircraft parts. Each was as much an artistic statement as it was functional... (cont.)
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