Charles (Ormand) Eames

Charles Eames was born 1907 in Saint Louis (Mis­souri) and died there in the year 1978. It stu­died from 1925 to 1928 ar­chi­tec­ture to the Wa­shing­ton Uni­ver­sity and worked af­ter­wards in dif­fe­rent architect's of­fices. it opened its first own stu­dio to 1930. 1938 made for it pos­si­ble Eliel Saarinen a scho­lar­ship to the re­now­ned Cran­brook Aca­demy of art. 1940 won Charles Eames as well as Eero Saarinen the first price with the com­pe­ti­tion mu­seum of the of de­ca­ying kind in New York “Or­ga­nic De­sign in Home”. 1941 he mar­ried Ray em­peror, who was born in the year 1912 in Sa­cra­mento (Ca­li­for­nia) and 1988 in Saint Louis de­cea­sed. Ray Eames was a highly gif­ted ar­tist and the two sup­ple­men­tal its­elf on the most be­au­ti­ful. This ex­pres­ses its­elf in the pro­duc­tivity of the pair, in­ter­na­tio­nal ad­mit­ting­ness at­tai­ned it with its fur­ni­ture drafts, like the fa­mous “Lounge Chair”, but worked it also wi­t­hin the ran­ges pho­to­gra­phy, film, ex­hi­bi­tion or­ga­niza­t­ion and gra­phics. To 1943 Charles and Ray Eames with stret­chers and splints from de­for­med la­mi­na­ted wood were oc­cu­p­ied. 1946 could rea­lize it an ex­hi­bi­tion over the la­mi­na­ted wood de­for­ma­tion in the mu­seum of de­ca­ying kind. 1949 were built the “Case Study” - for house num­ber 8. Star­ting from ap­pro­xi­mately 1955 Charles and Ray Eames un­fol­ded also an ex­ten­sive ac­tivity wi­t­hin the pho­to­gra­phic and ci­ne­ma­tic range. 1964 re­cei­ved it the ho­nour doc­tor title of the Pratt of in­sti­tu­tes in New York.