Charles (American, 1907–1978) and Ray Eames ... During World War II, they were commissioned by the United States Navy to produce molded plywood splints, stretchers, and experimental glider shells. In ...

They’d already collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames, the California-based designer couple, on a molded plywood leg splint.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband-and-wife design team best known for their chairs, worked out of an anonymous former trolley-car repair shop in a seedy section of ...