Cerentha, Charles Eames was born in 1907. Doesn’t that mean this would have been his 104th birthday ?
I grew up sitting in his molded plywood dining chairs and I still have them. (In fact I recently sent them to Herman Miller to have the rubber gaskets replaced.) They’re such early ones that they have black wrought iron bases, which I love. But gawd help you if you want to sit in them in any other way than all the way back against the lumbar support !
As a teenager I was exposed to the films my first year at college…..multi-screen was so exciting, as was the Eames’ confidence in the perceptive abilities of their audience. They taught me to open my mind and use my brain in a more interesting way. I was taken to their house to meet them when I was 19, and when I moved to Venice I lived around the corner from their studio, where they still worked every day. Their influence has permeated my life, and for that I am truly grateful.