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-Architect, painter, furniture designer, city planner. Le Corbusier was one of the most influential architects, and architectural thinkers, of the 20th century.
-"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light."
-Le Corbusier "Chaise Lounge", "LC1 Armchair", stool "LC7", chair "LC3", all designed in 1928
-One of the important design concepts in these pieces is the expression of 'structure' as a distinct, and separate component from the non-structural elements.
-"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light." -an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and was popular internationally throughout the 1930s and 1940's.
-The style was used in all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, and the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts and film.
-At its best, art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality and modernity.
-Art deco's linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves of its predecessor style art nouveau; it embraced influences from many different styles of the early twentieth century, including neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism and futurism and drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian and Aztec forms.
-Although many design movements have political or philosophical beginnings or intentions, art deco was purely decorative.
-The structure of Art Deco is based on mathematical geometric shapes.
-Art Deco had many distinctive styles, but one of the most significant of its features was its use of a range of ornaments and motifs.
-Art Deco is characterized by use of materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, lacquer, Bakelite, Chrome and inlaid wood. -Early fame for exploring bent plywood.
-Based furniture designs on experience of working with this material while in the Navy: they designed splints for broken arms and legs, out of bent plywood.
-Designed furniture, toys, museum exhibitions, posters as well films that described products, such as the Polaroid camera, to educational topics such as elementary mathematics.
-Thought of themselves as modernists.
-Desire was to "use new materials and industrial processes to produce quality everyday goods at prices affordable to most people."
-The challenge was to make their design popular.
-Many people found modernist design to be cold and impersonal.
-Had a vision of life made better through design and technology.
-Fused aesthetic and technical concerns, sometimes intellectual concerns, too.
-Regarded as outstanding, inspirational people. Charles was considered a"genius" by many people.
-They believed in hard work over inspiration. and "joy in labor."
-Other designers describe the Eameses' work environment as a "Renaissance workshop" or "designer's heaven."
-Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century.
-They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (e.g., the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.
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