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Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended school there and developed an interest in engineering and architecture. He attended Washington University on an architecture scholarship for two years and was thrown out for his advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright and Modernism.
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Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who, together with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California to Alexander and Edna Burr Kaiser, and had a brother named Maurice. After having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she graduated from Bennett Women's College in Millbrook, New York, and moved to New York City, w
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Charles Eames begins his own practise with two partners. He was greatly influenced by the Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen
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Charles moved in 1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department.
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Begins to work with Eero Saarinen
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Organic Design show 1941Together with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition.[4] Their work displayed the new technique of wood moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would further develop in many moulded plywood products, including chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War II.[5]
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The Eameses were the people who created one of the first multiscreen films: "Glimpses of the U.S.A.," a seven-screen extravaganza commissioned by the U.S. Information Agency in 1959 for an exhibition in Moscow.
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The Eames Office influenced the Universal Design Movement. They developed splints and stretchers during WWII. After the war they were committed to good design that would be afordable for the growing middle class. Their train station furniture and other public seating focused on making people comfortable, while allowing for people moving through a space. Their films show that they studied people moving through actual spaces. The Eames house, hand-constructed in a few days from off-the-shelf mate
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