Charles Eames and Ray Eames

Charles Eames and Ray Eames
Charles Eames (1907-78) and Ray Eames (1912-88) gave shape to America’s
twentieth century. Their lives and work represented the nation’s
defining movements: the West Coast’s coming-of-age, the economy’s
shift from making goods to producing information, and the global
expansion of American culture. The Eameses embraced the era’s visionary
concept of modern design [...]

Milo Baughman (1925-2004) is one of the most significant, distinctly American designers to leave his mark on the latter half of the 20th Century. Baughman’s résumé includes work created for Calif-Asia, Mode Furniture, Glenn of California, The Inco Company, Pacific Iron, Winchendon and Drexel, among many others. He also taught and wrote prolifically on the [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was an important modernist whose work cut across the fields of interior, industrial and exhibition design. Nelson studied architecture at Yale [...]

Eero Saarinen
(b. Kirkkonummi, Finland 1910; d. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1961)
Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland in 1910. He studied in Paris and at Yale University , after which he joined his father’s practice. Eero initially pursued sculpture as his [...]