Charles Eames

Eliel Saarinen influenced Eames, who also worked with Saarinen's son Eero.² According to Creative Hall of Fame, in 1942, Charles and Ray Eames received a Navy Department commission to make molded-plywood splints.³ According to Creative Hall of Fame, they later made aircraft parts, including components for special gliders.³

The Eameses conducted early research in a small West Los Angeles apartment before moving to a large garage in Venice.³ According to Creative Hall of Fame, that Venice garage remained his headquarters until his death in 1978.³

The Eames House was designed for a magazine-sponsored competition and was intended to be industrially producible.² A KulturNav entry describes the house as an emblem of twentieth-century American architecture.² Wooden chair shells were followed by plastic shells, which led to new chair series; one scholarly source holds that the later plastic-shell designs never equalled the earlier wooden-shell versions.⁵

The Eameses began work on A Communications Primer in 1951 and completed it in 1953.³ The ADC Creative Hall of Fame describes the film as one of the earliest and most successful popular interpretations of communications theory.³ The same source ties the Eameses' 1951 interest in communications to emerging cybernetics and IBM's early electronics, characterizing such engagement as unusual among designers at that time.³ Paul Schrader published a study of Charles Eames's films in Film Quarterly in 1970.⁶

According to ADC Creative Hall of Fame, a 1976 UCLA exhibition presented the work of both Charles and Ray Eames.³ Eames's work is documented in the Getty Union List of Artist Names under ID 500029567.¹ The Getty record's display name includes filmmaker, while its preferred heading describes him as a designer and architect.¹

The ULAN record lists MoMA artist files, Avery Authority files, the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Grove Art Online, and RKD Artists among its sources.¹ RKD's artist file 386089 names him Charles Orman, while a Swedish KulturNav entry gives the name Charles Ormond Eames, Jr.^1,2