Designers

American · 1907–1978 / 1912–1988

Charles & Ray Eames

The husband-and-wife team whose experiments with moulded plywood and plastic defined American mid-century modernism, believing good design should serve the many, not the few.

Chairs by Charles & Ray Eames

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