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 Charles Eames

Charles Eames, Jr (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. Charles was born the nephew of St. Louis architect William S. Eames. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one day becoming an architect).

Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architecture scholarship. After two years of study, he left the university. Many sources claim that he was dismissed for his advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright and his interest in modern architects. He was reportedly dismissed from the university because his views were "too modern."[1] Other sources, less frequently cited, note that while a student, Charles Eames also was employed as an architect at the firm of Trueblood and Graf.[2] The demands on his time from this employment and from his classes, led to sleep-deprivation and diminished performance at the university.

While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter, Lucia.

In 1930, Charles began his own architectural practice in St. Louis with partner Charles Gray. They were later joined by a third partner, Walter Pauley.

Charles Eames was greatly influenced by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, Charles moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department. In order to apply for the Architecture and Urban Planning Program, Eames defined an area of focus—the St. Louis waterfront. Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition.[3] Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.[4]

In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento, California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late 1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine's "Case Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home. Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and hand-constructed within a matter of days entirely of pre-fabricated steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a milestone of modern architecture.

On June 17, 2008, the US Postal Service released the Eames Stamps, a pane of 16 stamps celebrating the designs of Charles and Ray Eames.



Ray Eames

Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California to Alexander and Edna Burr Kaiser, and had a brother − Maurice. Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she graduated from Bennett Women's College in Millbrook, New York, and moved to New York, where she studied abstract expressionist painting with Hans Hofmann. She was a founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936 and displayed paintings in their first show a year later at Riverside Museum in Manhattan. One of her paintings is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art.

In September 1940, she began studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She met Charles Eames while preparing drawings and models for the Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition and they were married the following year.[5] Settling in Los Angeles, California, Charles and Ray Eames would lead an outstanding career in design and architecture.

In 1943, 1944, and 1947, Ray Eames designed several covers for the landmark magazine, Arts & Architecture .

In the late 1940s, Ray Eames created several textile designs, two of which, Crosspatch and Sea Things, were produced by Schiffer Prints, a company that also produced textiles by Salvador Dalí and Frank Lloyd Wright. Original examples of Ray Eames textiles can be found in many art museum collections. The Ray Eames textiles have been re-issued by Maharam as part of their Textiles of the Twentieth Century collection.

Ray Eames died in Los Angeles in 1988, ten years to the day after Charles.


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  Charles Eames

Charles Eames (17 de junio de 1907 - 21 de agosto de 1978) fue un arquitecto, diseñador y director de cine norteamericano. Junto a su esposa Ray, es responsable de numerosos diseños convertidos ya en clásicos del siglo XX. Nació en Saint Louis, Missouri y estudió arquitectura en la Universidad Washington en San Luis. A los dos años de iniciar sus estudios los abandonó y empezó a trabajar para un estudio de arquitectura de su ciudad natal. Trabajo básicamente en proyectos de viviendas residenciales.

Estuvo fuertemente influenciado por el arquitecto finés Eliel Saarinen. Siguiendo una invitación de Saarinen, se trasladó con su primera esposa, Catherine Woermann y su hija Lucía, en 1938 hasta Cranbrook, en Míchigan para continuar estudiando arquitectura y diseño en la Academia de Arte de Cranbook. Se convirtió en maestro y dirigió el departamento de diseño industrial. Junto a Eero Saarinen, el hijo de su maestro Eliel, diseño el trofeo para el premio de "Diseño Orgánico", otorgado por el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. El trabajo mostraba su nueva técnica en el modelaje de la madera; técnica que posteriormente desarrolló Eames en sillas y otros muebles que diseñó para la marina americana durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

En 1941 tras divorciarse de su esposa Catherine se casó con su colega en Cranbook, Ray Kaiser. Se trasladaron a vivir a Los Ángeles donde residirían durante el resto de su vida. A finales de los años 40, Ray y Charles diseñaron y construyeron su casa, conocida como la "casa Eames". Ubicada en lo alto de una colina y mirando hacia el Océano Pacífico, la casa se construyó con trozos prefabricados de acero. Hoy en día se sigue considerando esta casa como una obra maestra de la arquitectura moderna.

En los años 50, el matrimonio siguió trabajando en arquitectura y diseño de muebles. En muchas ocasiones se mostraron pioneros en la utilización de nuevas técnicas, como la fibra de vidrio o la resina plástica en la fabricación de sillas. Además, Charles empezó a mostrar interés por la fotografía y la producción de cortometrajes.

También se encargaron de realizar numerosas exposiciones. La primera de ellas "Matemáticas, un mundo de número y más allá" (1961) aún sigue siendo considerada como un modelo de exposición científica de carácter popular.


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