Charles Eames Biography

Charles Eames, Designer

Born as	Charles Ormond Eames, Jr
Occup.	Designer
From	USA
Born	June 17, 1907 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	August 21, 1978
Aged	71 years

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr was the nephew of St. Louis designer William S. Eames. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles operated at the Laclede Steel Company as a part-time laborer, where he learnt more about engineering, drawing, and architecture (and likewise very first amused the suggestion of someday ending up being an architect).

Together with his better half Ray Eames (birthed as Bernice Alexandra in Kaiser) is Charles Eames have actually been among the most influential figures in American modern design, "he gave shape to America's Twentieth Century."

Charles Eames examined architecture at The Washington University, St. Louis. Louis, from 1924 to 1926 without finishing. From 1925 to 1927 he benefited the designers of Trueblood as well as Graf. He traveled in 1929 in Europe, where he came in contact with modernist structures, concepts of the Modern Movement. When he returned to the United States, he established Architects Gray and Eames. His work in the 1930s included several jobs of different kinds such as furnishings, porcelains, fabrics and also design. His major works throughout this period John Phillip Meyer Residence St. Louis (1935 to 1938).

1936, Charles Eames chair, Department of Experimental Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, a prestigious establishment in American design, led by Eliel Saarinen. At Cranbrook Eames concerned examine further and additionally instruct. There, he fulfilled Ray Kaiser, and Eero Saarinen, he concerned collaborate with. 1941 he relocated with new better half Ray Kaiser to California and he came to benefit Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

1945 Eames was taken part in the Case Study House Program sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, and was organized by John Entenza. The project involved a team of architects were developing affordable houses with standard industrially created structure materials. The task was Charles Eames house 1947th The house called" Case House No. 8" and also is located in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles (203 North Chautauqua Boulevard). The house is among the most vital jobs of modern style's most important jobs. It was created with premade materials as well as building methods that would certainly or else provide in the plant production. With its revealed steel structure Eames residence is considered to be a leader and also role model for the current state-of-the-art design.

Eames made a collection of traditional furnishings, consisting of Eames Lounge Chair 670 (1956) is considered one of the most exceptional.

Eames continued to work as an architect up until the mid-1960s, and afterwards came to concentrate on furnishings style, movie and exhibits.

Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topic Design.

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16 Famous quotes by Charles Eames

"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do"

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se"

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose"

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next"

"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need"

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world"

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"

"It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad"

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act"

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route"

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make"

"The details are not the details. They make the design"

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life"

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design"