Artist Bio
Overview
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
REVIEWS
"Lively, gratifying…appropriately busy and abundant: full of objects, information, stories and people, organized with hectic elegance." - New York Times"It's a chair we see first, a stunning Eames lounge chair, and that's as it should be… there couldn't be a better time to examine the complex and absorbing history of this designing couple, and "Eames: The Architect and the Painter" couldn't be a better vehicle for that examination." - Los Angeles Times"A-! Deceptively cool and sometimes giddily fun…A delight, illuminating a pair of true American geniuses, in a whimsical way totally befitting their product."- Indiewire"Superb. A dazzling, sensory adventure. An extraordinary and enjoyable history of how two people influenced so much of our thinking and surroundings today." - Seattle Times
