"My wife is a painter, and a very good one... and we’ve been working together for, oh, twelve years now, I guess...and at first I used to help and criticize things she was doing, and then she would help and criticize things I was doing, and we would... pitch in and do all the jiggering for each other and get it as people do... and then, gradually, things begin to sort of, you know, entropy... things began to get shuffled, and pretty soon you didn’t know, sort of, where one started and the other ended, and anything that we’ve looked at or talked about here, you know, I say that I’m doing it, but actually, she’s doing it just as much as I am, only she sort of goes under the same corporate type name..."
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Charles Eames in a 1952 speech to a national assembly of the AIA; As cited in: Ray Eames at eamesdesigns.com, Accessed April 8, 2014; Charles Eames talks about
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Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture.
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