Vitra - Essentiële Eames

Vitra book "Essential Eames".

This book consists of short quotes from the notes of Charles and Ray Eames as well as the speeches sorted into different themes, and the text is complemented by lively photographs of the Eames couple and their staff.

Dimensions: Height 2.1 cm Width 24.1 cm Depth 16.7 cm. English text.

About the designers:

The couple Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (1907-1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Eames, born Kaiser, (1912-1988) were American designers. With each their background within resp. industrial furniture design (Charles) and art (Ray) they met in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. In 1941 they married and began experimenting with three-dimensional molded plywood, with the aim of producing affordable and comfortable chairs.

Their work was interrupted by the Second World War and only resumed in 1946, when they presented an exhibition of their furniture designs at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

In 1957, Vitra entered into a licensing agreement with Herman Miller and began producing Charles and Ray Eames' designs for Europe and the Middle East. It was the beginning of Vitra's furniture production, which is why the Eames couple had a great influence on Vitra as a design company and their values ​​and goals permeate even Vitra today.