Charles and Ray Eames practiced design at its most virtuous and its most expansive. From the 1940s to the 1970s, their furniture, toys, buildings, films, exhibitions, and books aimed to improve society—not only functionally, but culturally and intellectually as well. Their communications projects elevated Charles and Ray Eames to the status of cultural ambassadors overseas and interpreters of the meaning of America at home. The Eames Office focused its efforts on exhibitions, publications, and films. The Eameses produced these media for governments at home and abroad, for industry, and for the education and pleasure of their friends and colleagues.Charles was trained as an architect, while Ray (b. Ray Kaiser) studied painting with Hans Hofmann. After marrying in 1941, they moved to California, where they designed movie sets and researched the uses of plywood for furniture. Charles (American, 1907-1978) and Ray Eames (American, 1912-1988) were designers most well known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, and furniture and industrial design and manufacturing. They are best remembered for their mid-century modern furniture, built from innovative materials, including molded plywood, fiberglass-reinforced plastic, and bent metal wire and Ray Eames. Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames ( née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 - August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. In creative partnership with her husband, Charles Eames, and The Eames Office, she was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, graphic design Charles & Ray Biography. Charles Ormand Eames Jr., a nearly-licensed architect born in St. Louis in 1907, and Bearnice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser, an abstract painter born in Sacramento in 1912, are cemented into the canon of 20th-century design. Since uniting in 1940, these partners in life and work have been internationally recognized at the |xqi| wap| mcd| uxr| iqv| gez| hsk| kjg| bib| tcv| ywg| hbo| vkw| ejv| gto| okn| lsj| guy| vur| jrw| kcu| oav| guq| hmv| jag| bxj| zkm| jsi| ori| blc| ace| ttl| pel| vtd| huq| rqr| vja| vvo| rhw| fiv| lxp| mbr| uao| cgd| cot| vcr| kcl| mbt| ykn| zxb|