In this unique publication, Marilyn and<br>John Neuhart tell the story, to paraphrase<br>Charles Eames himself, of how Eames furniture<br>got to be the way it is. The Story of<br>Eames Furniture is a biography --not of an<br>individual person, but of arguably the most<br>influential and important furniture brand<br>of our time. Brimming with more than<br>2,500 images and insider information, this<br>two-volume book in a slipcase sheds new<br>light on the context in which the furniture<br>of Charles and Ray Eames was created. It<br>documents in unparalleled detail how the<br>design process in the Eames Office developed<br>as well as the significant roles played<br>by specific designers and manufacturers.<br>Volume 1 presents the early years of the<br>Eames Office and its method of furniture<br>design and development. It introduces not<br>only Charles and Ray Eames, but also key<br>members of their design team including Eero<br>Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Herbert Matter, and<br>others --a widely diverse group of people<br>who did the day-by-day work on the furniture<br>projects and who together ultimately<br>turned contemporary design in a new direction.<br>This volume also focuses on Charles<br>Eames's early work with plywood and how he<br>adapted plywood-molding techniques into a<br>system to mass-produce furniture.<br>Volume 2 features the period from the<br>aftermath of the Second World War through<br>1978, the year of Charles Eames's death and<br>of the effective, functional end of the Eames<br>Office. By explaining the pioneering industrial<br>processes used with innovative materials<br>such as fiberglass, wire, and aluminum, it<br>provides incomparable insight into how new<br>technologies served as the genesis for the<br>most interesting pieces of Eames furniture.<br>This volume also focuses on the role of the<br>Herman Miller Furniture Company in the evolution of furniture design at the Eames<br>Office and investigates the influence of Don<br>Albinson, who was Charles Eames's primary<br>designer and technician from the mid-1940s<br>to 1960.<br>The Story of Eames Furniture celebrates<br>Charles Eames's vanguard cultural achievement<br>of giving modern society the opportunity<br>of materializing its identity through<br>furniture design that, even today, still tops<br>bestseller lists and has not lost any of its<br>original elegance, timelessness, freshness,<br>and quality.