66° A Few CloudsAmerican Masters: Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect And The Painter
From 1941 to 1978, the husband-and-wife team of Ray and Charles Eames brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together, they are considered America’s most important and influential designers, whose work helped shape, literally, the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular today. "Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect And The Painter" airs Monday, December 19, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV.
Charles and Ray Eames.
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Ray and Charles Eames examining the sling locations to be covered by fabric lapping in a prototype of the Aluminum Group Lounge Chair, 1957.
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Ray and Charles Eames photographing an early model of the exhibition “Mathematica: A World of Numbers … and Beyond,” 1960.
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Ray Eames with an early prototype version of The Toy, made of cardboard triangles; outside the Eames House, 1951.
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Charles and Ray Eames departing for Moscow and the American National Exhibition, 1959.
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Ray and Charles Eames selecting slides for the exhibition, “Photography & the City, 1968."
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Charles and Ray Eames posing on a Velocette motorcycle, 1948.
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Ray and Charles Eames at home, circa 1970.
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Charles and Ray Eames’ grandson Eames Demetrios at the Eames House.
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DCW (dining height chair, wood legs); molded plywood dining chair, 1946.
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Eames Lounge (full front, without ottoman).
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Eames Aluminum Group Lounge (1958).
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Molded plywood children’s chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames.
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Blue molded fiberglass chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames.
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