Charles&Ray Eames

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11 Mar 2016
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Charles was born in St.Louis in 1907.His father died in early years. From the age of 10 he worked to help support his family, taking jobs in a printing shop, a grocery store,drugstore. Than he contiuned his education in Washington University architecture with scholarship. Dismiss from university because 'His views were too modern'.

Ray was born in California in 1912.Ray-Ray was the nickname given to Bernice Alexandra Kaiser by her family. Beyond that, little is known of her childhood in Sacramento, although Ray’s artistic talent was evidently recognized early on. After high school she left California with her widowed mother for New York City, where she studied with the German Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann and exhibited her paintings. After her mother’s death, Ray left New York for further training at the Art Academy in Cranbrook, Michigan, where Charles Eames was one of her teachers and mentors.

They married in 1941. Nobody knows how they were together, only they know.Than they work together in Eames office.They design a house and moved in 1949.They called 'dream house' and they live here unless they die. You can see their design in their house.

LA CHAISE

Charles and Ray designed this lounge chair for The Museum of Modern Art’s 1948 “International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design.” Its name references both its function as well as Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure sculpture, whose shape the Eameses thought would fit the chair perfectly.

Comprised of two bonded fiberglass shells, a chromed base, and natural oak feet, the chair exhibits a captivating elegance and allows for a wide range of sitting and reclining positions.

LOUNGE CHAIR OTTOMAN