Charles & Ray EAMES

“Any time one or more things are consciously put together in a way that they can accomplish something better than they could have accomplished individually, this is an act of design.”

Charles Eames and Ray Eames were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art, and film.

“A key reason for the timelessness of Eames designs may be that [Charles and Ray] were not merely attracted to traditional art, but went a step further and developed a way of designing that echoed, in an unpretentious way, the traditional processes they respected.”