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PEOPLE & CULTURE
eames: the architect and the

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely considered
America’s most important designers

They gave their name to an era. “Just like Queen Victoria represents an attitude
toward life that is reflected in Victorian art and literature, Eames also embodies a
certain approach to life and to ideas,” notes film director Paul Schrader early in
this eye-opening documentary about the iconic American industrial designers.

The “Eames Era,” which began in the optimistic flush of American victory in WWII, Definition Episodes
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ended when Charles died in 1978. Yet their impact grows unabated. The work of Producer YOP
Charles and Ray Eames remains for designers and consumers an ideal of design Catticus Corporation (Quest 2011
at its most virtuous – an alchemical combination of beauty and purpose. Productions / Bread &

Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture,
the Eames Office also created a bewildering variety of other products, from
splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors,
multi-media...