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American married couple of industrial designers

Charles Eames (Charles Eames, Jr) and Ray Eames (Ray-Bernice 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. Charles was the public face of the Eames Office, but Ray and Charles worked together as creative partners and employed a diverse creative staff.^[1] Among their most recognized designs is the Eames Lounge Chair and the Eames Dining Chair.

Background

Charles Eames secured an architecture scholarship at Washington University, but his devotion to the practices of Frank Lloyd Wright caused issues with his tutors and he left after just two years of study.^[2]

He met Ray Gayber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940. Charles arrived at the school herman miller eames biography of william4 VUN