Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Eames (1907-1978) started his career as an architect. He met his later wife Ray Kaiser (1912-1988) when he became her design teacher.
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen developed together a new technique of wood moulding, that made it possible to form plywood into three dimensions.
During World War II they used this technique to produce splints, stretchers and parts for airplanes for the U.S. government.
The main idea of their furniture design was to find a form that perfectly fits to the human anatomy.
Therefore they were working with a lot of different materials.
In 1948 Eames joined a competition about low cost furniture. His original design made of metal was too expensive so he decided to work with fibre glass. At this time fibre glass was used for radar screens. This material made it possible to produce seats in one piece.
At the same time they used wire for their designs because you can also produce three dimensional one piece seats with it.