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Ray and Charles Eames: Or, how the artist and the architect revolutionised furniture design


Published on 06.01.2009
Plywood Chair from Vitra
Eames Lounge Chair by Vitra

The US furniture producer and pioneer Herman Miller offered Charles and Ray Eames a cooperation. Together with Miller and his design director George Nelson not only was the lounge chair further developed and perfected, but a whole range of Eames creation were developed and produced.  Despite the increasing critical and commercial success of their work,  Charles and Ray Eames never lost sight of their central foci on quality, aesthetic in a product that could built with minimum fuss. The cooperation with Herman Miller naturally brought the Eames work to Europe through Millers partner Vitra. Who to this day still posses the exclusive rights to Eames products in Europe and Asia.

Ray und Charles Eames (Photo: www.designmuseum.org)

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#Charles and Ray Eames #Charles Eames #Eero Saarinen #George Nelson #Lounge Chair #Ray Eames #Vitra