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  • Summary: The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work. (First Run Features)… Expand

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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    Dec 8, 2011
    75
    The Eamery, as some called it, was highly successful as a business - and, more important, as an exercise in tastemaking. "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least,'' the Eameses like to say.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Lewis
    Dec 1, 2011
    75
    As fascinating - and at times oblique - as the famous couple themselves.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    Nov 15, 2011
    60
    As this engaging, if rote, doc points out, the name Eames, much like Victorian, now defines the style of an era. Yet how many of us knew that the industrial designers behind those midcentury molded mod chairs were an eccentric married team?

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