Charles Eames
Designer
1907-06-17 – 1978-08-21
Charles Eames was an American designer, architect, and filmmaker best known for modern furniture and industrial design work with Ray Eames. The Eameses helped shape postwar design in architecture, interiors, and visual communication. Their work remains central to modern design history.
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Quotes by Charles Eames
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Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.
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Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.
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It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
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