http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/happy-birthday-charles-eames-2/ Lifework Mon, 20 May 2013 21:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/happy-birthday-charles-eames-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3120 Cerentha Harris Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:58:11 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=9420#comment-3120 Dear Sharon, Thanks so much for the comment...I've changed the opening line to the post. He would have been 104 today! C Dear Sharon,
Thanks so much for the comment…I’ve changed the opening line to the post. He would have been 104 today!
C

]]> http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/happy-birthday-charles-eames-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Sharon Hagen Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:48:42 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=9420#comment-3119 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. 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.

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