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Illustrious design duo Charles and Ray Eames are best know to the general public for their furniture designs. The Husband and wife duo were also forerunners in the field of architecture, industrial design,... Read more photography and film. Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri and studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. After graduating he opened his own office together with Charles M. Gray in 1930.
"Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects, etc. ... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se." - by Charles Eames
In 1935 Charles Eames founded another architectural firm with Robert T. Walsh. After receiving a fellowship in 1938 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he moved to Michigan and assumed a teaching position in the design department. In 1940, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen won first prize for their joint entry in the competition "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. During the same year, Eames became head of the department of industrial design at Cranbrook, and in 1941 he married Ray Kaiser.
Ray Eames, née Bernice Alexandra Kaiser, was born in Sacramento, California in 1912. She attended the May Friend Bennet School in Millbrook, New York, and continued her studies in painting under Hans Hofmann through 1937, for 6 years.
During this year she exhibited her work in the first exhibition of the American Abstract Artists group at the Riverside Museum in New York. She matriculated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940 and married Charles Eames the following year.
Read moreEames Aluminium Group Chairs EA 105 & EA 108 for office meetings, conferences, and boardrooms.
Eames Folding Screen is a flexible free standing room divider with a sculptured wave-like aesthetic.
Eames Tandem Seating ETS is a robust modular terminal seating system for public waiting areas.
Eames Meeting Tables available in various sizes or can be custom made for your office needs.
Eames Plastic Side Chair DSW for indoors/outdoors, restaurants, waiting areas, offices or conference rooms.
Eames Plastic Side Chair DSR for indoors/outdoors, restaurants, waiting areas, offices or conference rooms.
DAW Eames Plastic Armchair with organically shaped plastic seat shells for exceptional comfort and style.
These turned Eames Stools of solid walnut can be used as elegant seats or occasional tables.
RAR Eames Rocking Armchairs are a great nursing seating solution available in many colours.
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