biography
pronunciation:
[eemz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–78)
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| biography:
| Architect and designer, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied and practised architecture and taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art (1937–40). There he collaborated on modern furniture design with the Saarinens and student Ray Kaiser (c.1916–88), whom he married in 1941. Initially a painter and sculptor, his wife formed an innovative design partnership with her husband (1941–78) that produced moulded plywood chairs, modular storage units, knock-down furniture, graphics, interiors, exhibit displays, and experimental films. They moved to California (1941) and set up a workshop designing military leg splints, film sets for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and in 1947 their own landmark home in Santa Monica constructed of prefabricated parts. The moulded plywood, leather-upholstered, pedestal-mounted Eames Lounge Chair 670 (1956) with ottoman was their most enduring creation. |
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