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Charles Eames - American Architect and Modern Furniture Designer
Charles Eames - 1907-1978 USA
Charles Eames was born in St Louis, USA, 1907. He studied architecture at Washington University.
The Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Michigan provided him a fellowship in 1936. His colleagues there included Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia and Ray Kaiser who later became his wife in 1941.
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Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen won the award for "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1940. Charles Eames was the first architect to be totally at home with technology. He used technology with an artist's flair. The United States Army commissioned him to produce plywood stretchers and splints during the second World War, Charles and Ray Eames developed a new method to bend plywood into complex curves over three geometric planes. |
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This led to his design of the LCM chair in 1945, it had a moulded plywood seat and back with compound curves on metal legs He was the first person to produce compound curves with moulded plywood. Eames and Saarinen mastered the machine so that it was no longer threatening and able to do as they asked.
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