Design, Products
May 2, 2013
By Amy Feezor
Today’s clue in our “Everywhere in Your Day” Contest takes its inspiration from the continual design journey of Charles and Ray Eames. For these designers, everything was a process and an exploration. And when they married and began working together in the 1940s, part of their journey involved exploring seating solutions crafted from one piece of material — a curved, single-shell form in which the seat and back are one. Read more
Trends
April 5, 2012
By Amy Feezor
When creating last February’s look at Eames molded plastic chairs in offices, we started to notice something: while the chairs are available in a range of 10 different colors, our white shell seats seem to be particularly popular right now (like in the Portland, Oregon workspace of the creative agency Juliet Zulu, above). Take a look at a few more setups using Charles and Ray Eames’ simple white-hued seating with the waterfall-front edges. Read more