Re: Fiberglass Herman Miller Chair by Eames - Set of 5 Chairs (
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> Fiberglass Chairs by Eames - in Average to Poor Condition, thus
Major Price Reduction.
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> The genuine Herman Miller Chairs retail for $800+ - selling here
for $125 and $100.... or $400 for all five!
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> All five chairs match in color, design and year produced but one
chair has a bolt in the seat and the other has 2 bolts in the seat.
Three chairs have no bolts at all and are in original condition.
(Bolts typically used to add cushions at the chairs).
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> Selling all five chairs for $400 or separately for $125 each (3
nonbolted) and $100 for the 2 bolted .
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> All five chairs are completely genuine and authentic Herman
Miller chairs by Eames.
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> More about Charles & Ray Eames:
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> Charles Eames
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> Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (June 17, 1907 - August 21, 1978) was born
in 1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri. Charles was born the nephew of St.
Louis architect William S. Eames. By the time he was 14 years old,
while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel
Company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering,
drawing, and architecture (and also first entertained the idea of one
day becoming an architect).
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> Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in
St. Louis on an architectural scholarship. After two years of study,
he left the university. Many sources claim, with little evidence,
that he was dismissed for his advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright and his
interest in modern architects. Several websites claim that "In
the report describing why he was dismissed from the university, a
professor wrote the comment 'His views were too modern.'" This
alleged comment has yet to be attributed to any specific member of
the architectural faculty. Other sources, less frequently cited, note
that while a student, Charles Eames also was employed as an architect
at the firm of Trueblood and Graf.[1] The demands on his time from
this employment and from his classes, led to sleep-deprivation and
diminished performance at the university. It needs to be explored and
researched further to determine the actual cause of his departure from
the university, rather than repeating the old, unverified story of his
being a victim of backward-looking faculty who supposedly threw him
out simply for his points of view.
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> While at Washington University, he met his first wife, Catherine
Woermann, whom he married in 1929. A year later, they had a daughter,
Lucia.
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> In 1930, Charles began his own architectural practice in St. Louis
with partner Charles Gray. They were later joined by a third partner,
Walter Pauley.
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> Charles Eames was greatly influenced by the Finnish architect Eliel
Saarinen (whose son Eero, also an architect, would become a partner
and friend). At the elder Saarinen's invitation, Charles moved in
1938 with his wife Catherine and daughter Lucia to Michigan, to
further study architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he
would become a teacher and head of the industrial design department.
In order to apply for the Architecture and Urban Planning Program,
Eames defined an area of focus - the St. Louis waterfront. Together
with Eero Saarinen he designed prize-winning furniture for New York's
Museum of Modern Art "Organic Design in Home Furnishings"
competition.[2] Their work displayed the new technique of wood
moulding (originally developed by Alvar Aalto), that Eames would
further develop in many moulded plywood products, including, beside
chairs and other furniture, splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy
during World War II.[3]
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> In 1941, Charles and Catherine divorced, and he married his
Cranbrook colleague Ray Kaiser, who was born in Sacramento,
California. He then moved with her to Los Angeles, California, where
they would work and live for the rest of their lives. In the late
1940s, as part of the Arts & Architecture magazine's "Case
Study" program, Ray and Charles designed and built the
groundbreaking Eames House, Case Study House #8, as their home.
Located upon a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and
hand-constructed within a matter of days entirely of pre-fabricated
steel parts intended for industrial construction, it remains a
milestone of modern architecture.
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> [edit] Ray Eames
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> Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (December 15, 1912 - August 21,
1988) was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who, together
with her husband Charles, is responsible for many classic, iconic
designs of the 20th century. She was born in Sacramento, California.
Having lived in a number of cities during her youth, in 1933 she
moved to New York, where she studied abstract painting with Hans
Hofmann.
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> In September 1940 she began studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art
in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she met Charles Eames, marrying
him the following year. Settling in Los Angeles, California, Charles
and Ray Eames would lead an outstanding career in design and
architecture.
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> Ray Eames died in Los Angeles in 1988, ten years to the day after
Charles.
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> In the 1950s, the Eameses continued their work in architecture and
modern furniture design. Like in the earlier moulded plywood work,
the Eameses pioneered innovative technologies, such as the
fiberglass, plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed
for Herman Miller. Charles and Ray would soon channel Charles'
interest in photography into the production of short films. From
their first film, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to the
extraordinary Powers of Ten (1977), their cinematic work was an
outlet for ideas, a vehicle for experimentation and education.
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> The Eameses also conceived and designed a number of landmark
exhibitions. The first of these, Mathematica: a world of
numbers...and beyond (1961), was sponsored by IBM, and is the only
one of their exhibitions still extant. [4] The Mathematica Exhibition
is still considered a model for scientific popularization exhibitions.
It was followed by "A Computer Perspective: Background to the
Computer Age" (1971) and "The World of Franklin and
Jefferson" (1975-1977), among others.
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> The office of Charles and Ray Eames, which functioned for more than
four decades (1943-88) at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice,
California, included in its staff, at one time of another, a number
of remarkable designers, like Henry Beer and Richard Foy, now
Co-chairmen of CommArts, Inc., Don Albinson, Deborah Sussman, Harry
Bertoia, and Gregory Ain, who was Chief Engineer for the Eames'
during World War II[5]. Among the many important designs originating
there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining
Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945), Eames Lounge Chair (1956),
the Aluminum Group furniture (1958) and as well as the Eames Chaise
(1968), designed for Charles's friend, film director Billy Wilder,
the playful Do-Nothing Machine (1957), an early solar energy
experiment, and a number of toys.
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> Short films produced by the couple often document their interests
in collecting toys and cultural artifacts on their travels. The films
also record the process of hanging their exhibits or producing classic
furniture designs, to the purposefully mundane topic of filming soap
suds moving over the pavement of a parking lot. Perhaps their most
popular movie, "Powers of Ten" (narrated by the late
physicist Philip Morrison), gives a dramatic demonstration of orders
of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of
the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a
carbon atom. Charles was a prolific photographer as well with
thousands of images of their furniture, exhibits and collections, and
now a part of the Library of Congress.
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> Charles Eames died of a heart attack on August 21, 1978 while on a
consulting trip in his native Saint Louis, and now has a star on the
St. Louis Walk of Fame. Ray died 10 years later to the exact day.
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> At the time of his death they were working on what became their
last production, the Eames Sofa which went into production in 1984.
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> From the beginning, The Eames furniture has usually been listed as
by Charles Eames; indeed in the 1948 and 1952 Herman Miller bound
catalogs, only Charles' name is listed, but it's become clear that
Ray was deeply involved and should be considered an equal partner.
The Eames fabrics (many are currently available from Maharam were
mostly designed by Ray, as were the Time Life Stools. But in reading
the various books on Eames, and seeing the photos of furniture
developement, it's clear that Ray's involvement is absolute.
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> The Eames philosophy was very much entrenched in process.[citation
needed] Process to get to the final product often took years of trial
and error.[citation needed]
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> In 1970-71, Charles Eames gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at
Harvard University. At the lectures, the Eames viewpoint and
philosophy are related through Charles' own telling of what he called
the banana leaf parable, a banana leaf being the most basic dish off
which to eat in southern India. He related the progression of design
and its process where the banana leaf is transformed into something
fantastically ornate. He explains the next step and ties it to the
design process by finishing the parable with:
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> "But you can go beyond that and the guys that have not
only means, but a certain amount of knowledge and understanding, go
the next step and they eat off of a banana leaf. And I think that in
these times when we fall back and regroup, that somehow or other, the
banana leaf parable sort of got to get working there, because I'm not
prepared to say that the banana leaf that one eats off of is the same
as the other eats off of, but it's that process that has happened
within the man that changes the banana leaf. And as we attack these
problems and I hope and I expect that the total amount of energy
used in this world is going to go from high to medium to a little bit
lower the banana leaf idea might have a great part in it."[6]
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> This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy
certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with
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> * Sweetzer House (193?)
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> * St. Louis Post-Dispatch model home (193?)
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> * St. Mary's Church (Helena, Arkansas) (1934)
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> * St. Mary's Church (Paragould, Arkansas) (1935)
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> * Dinsmoor House (193?)
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> * Dean House (193?)
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> * Meyer House (1938)
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> * Bridge house (Eames - Saarinen) (1945)
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> * Eames House (1949)
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> * Max De Pree House (1954)
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> * Traveling Boy (1950)
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> * Blacktop: A Story of the Washing of a School Play Yard (1952)
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> * Parade Parade Or Here They Are Coming Down Our Street (1952)
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> * A Communications Primer (1953)
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> * House: After Five Years of Living (1955)
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> * Day of the Dead (1957)
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> * Toccata for Toy Trains (1957)
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> * Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair (1960)
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> * Image of the City (1969)
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> * Banana Leaf (1972)
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> * Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India (1955)
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> * Glimpses of the USA (7 screens for the American exhibition in
Moscow, Sokoolniki Park) (1959)
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> * IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair
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> * Nehru: The man and his India (1965)
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> * The World of Franklin and Jefferson (1975) built for the US
Bicentennial Commission opens in Paris, travels to 5 other countries
and the US.
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> * Library of Congress exhibit (1999)
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> Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW)
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> * Eames-Saarinen Kleinhans chair (1939)
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> * Eames-Saarinen organic chair (1941)
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> * Children's chairs (1945)
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> * Eames Lounge Chair Wood (LCW) (1945)
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> * Circular table wood (1945)
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> * Eames Plywood Side Chair (1946)
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> * The Soft Pad Chair (1946)[7]
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> * La chaise (1948)
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> * Eames RAR (Rocker Armchair Rod) Rocker (1948)
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> * Eames Eiffel Plastic Side Chair (1950)
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> * The lounge Chair Metal(1950)
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> * Eames Eiffel Plastic Armchair (1950)
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> * Eames Desk and Storage Units (1950)
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> * Eames Desk and Storage Units (1950)
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> * The DAW (1950)
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> * Eames Sofa Compact (1954)
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> * Eames lounge chair and ottoman (1956)
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> * Eames Aluminum Management Chair (1958)
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> * Eames Aluminum Side Chair (1958)
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> * Eames Aluminum Ottoman (1958)
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> * Eames Executive Chair (1960) (aka: Lobby Chair, Time-Life
Chair)
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> * Eames Walnut Stool (3 styles; Shapes A, B and C 1960)
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> * Eames tandem sling seating (1962)
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> * Two piece plastic chair (1971)
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> * Eames Sofa (1984) produced after Charles Eames' death
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> * Molded plywood splint (~1942) for the US military
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> * Molded plywood nose cone and other parts for the CG-16
(flying flatcar) glider (1943)
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> * Pilot seat (1946) Prototype in molded plywood for the
military
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> * Newton deck of cards (1974)
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> * House of cards (1952)
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> * "Eventually, everything connects." Charles Eames
[from http://powersof10.com]
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> * "Innovate as a last resort."[citation needed]
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order to solve a problem."[citation needed]
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> * "I have never been forced to accept compromises but I
have willingly accepted constraints." [8]
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> * "Take your pleasures seriously."[citation needed]
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> * The details are not the details. They make the
design. [citation needed]
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funny thing is, I dont know what a joke actually is."[citation
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> 1. ^ Charles Ormond Eames : architect biography
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> 2. ^ Eliot F. Noyes. Organic Design in Home Furnishings. Museum
of Modern Art. 1941.
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> 3. ^ Alexandra Griffith Winton. Charles Eames (1907 78) and Ray
Eames (1912 88). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed 12 December
2007.
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> 4. ^ The original was created for a new wing of the (currently
named) California Science Center; it is now owned by and on display
at the New York Hall of Science. In late 1961 a duplicate was created
for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago; in 1980 it moved to
the Museum of Science, Boston. Another version was created for the
1964/1965 New York World's Fair IBM exhibit. After the World's Fair
it was moved to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle where it stayed
until 1980.
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> 5. ^ Denzer, Anthony (2008). Gregory Ain: The Modern Home as
Social Commentary. Rizzoli Publications. ISBN 0-8478-3062-4. http://www.rizzoliusa.com/catalog/results.pperl?title_auth_isbn=denzer&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=submit.
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> 6. ^ Charles Eames. Excerpt from Norton Lecture #1 by Charles
Eames. Eames Office resources. Accessed 11 December 2007.
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> 7. ^ "View images of his design work"
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> 8. ^ John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Charles Eames, Ray Eames
Eames Design. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989. page 15. (ISBN
0-8109-0879-4)
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> * John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray Eames Eames Design. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989. (ISBN 0-8109-0879-4)
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> * Eames Demetrios An Eames Primer. New York: Universe, 2002.
(ISBN 0-7893-0629-8)
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> * Gössel, Peter (ED)Koenig Gloria Eames Taschen 2005 (ISBN
3-8228-3651-6)
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> Sister project Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Category:Charles Eames
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> [edit] External links
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> * Eames Foundation
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> * Museum of Modern Art website
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> * Eames Office Website
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> * Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work
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> * Charles Eames - Design Dictionary Illustrated article about
Charles Eames
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> * Ray Eames on The California Museum's California Legacy Trails
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> * Charles and Ray Eames at the Internet Movie Database
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> * "A Communications Primer"(1953) at the Internet
Archive
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