EAMES
The creative duo of Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Although best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also pioneers in architecture, textile design, photography, and film.
The Eameses' work defined a new, multifunctional modernity, exemplary in its junction between craft and design, and in its use of modern materials, particularly plywood and plastics. The Eames Lounge Chair Wood, fashioned from molded and bent plywood, helped define twentieth-century furniture, and the couple's contribution to the Case Study Houses project draws inventively on industrial materials while proposing a flexible plan of multipurpose spaces that would become a hallmark of postwar modern architecture.
From the couple's early furniture experiments to their seminal short film Powers of Ten, this book covers every aspect of the Eameses' illustrious repertoire and its revolutionary impact on middle-class American life.
Author: Gloria Koenig
Publisher: Tashen 2005
Weight: 0.8 kg
Dimensions: 21 x 1.5 x 24 cm
Language: French