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Charles Eames

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Eames , 1907-78, American designer, b. St. Louis, Mo. He opened his own architectural practice in 1930 and in the late 30s studied with Eliel Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., later teaching there, and becoming head of the design department. In 1941 he married Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser Eames, 1912-88, b. Sacramento, Calif., and they settled in S California. Together they created some of 20th-century America's most influential designs for furniture, interiors, fabrics, toys, and other consumer goods, most manufactured with mass-production techniqu... Read more
Eames, Charles 1907-1978
EAMES, CHARLES 1907-1978 Architect and designer of famous...fabrics, machinery, and buildings, Charles Eames was best known for the series of chairs...Born in Saint Louis to a Civil War veteran, Eames won a scholarship to study architecture... Read more
Eames, Charles Orman
Eames, Charles Orman (1907–78). American designer, one of the most significant and versatile of his time. His reputation as an architect...industrialized building . He was even better known as a designer of moulded plywood chairs and other furniture, especially the Eames Chair (1940–1), ... Read more

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