Design: Charles and Ray Eames
Concept: One of the most beloved decorative figures in the home of designers Charles and Ray Eames was a black wooden bird, known as the Eames House Bird. It exudes elegance and is crafted with large finesse and precision and adorns any windowsill, resting on its legs of steel wire. The Eames couple found inspiration for the wooden bird on one of their trips to the Appalachians, where there was a piece of folk art shaped like a bird made of wood. Today, the Eames House Bird is produced by Vitra and is available in the original black painted color in lacquered alder and a warmer variant in lacquered walnut.
About the designers: Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (1907-1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Eames, née Kaiser, (1912-1988) were American designers. With backgrounds in industrial furniture design (Charles) and art (Ray), they met in 1940 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit. In 1941 they married and began experimenting with three-dimensional molded plywood, with the goal of producing affordable and comfortable chairs. Due to World War II, their experimental work was interrupted and only resumed in 1946, when they presented an exhibition of their furniture designs at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. After that, things took off. They entered into an agreement with The Herman Miller Company, which began producing their furniture. In 1957, Vitra entered into a licensing agreement with Herman Miller and began producing Charles and Ray Eames designs for Europe and the Middle East. It was the starting point for Vitra's furniture production, which is why the Eames couple has had a large influence on Vitra as a design company, and their values and goals even permeate Vitra to this day.
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