From the 1940s to the 1970s, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband-and-wife design ... writes biographer Pat Kirkham, the Eameses gave modernism "a human face and a comfortable bottom." ...

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

Charles Eames and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 1940. Charles was already ...