Gallery: Eames: The Architect and the Painter Is a Fascinating Intro to Design Duo
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*The DCW (Dining height Chair Wood legs), made from molded plywood in 1946, is one of Charles and Ray Eames' classic designs, as seen in* Eames: The Architect and the Painter, *a new documentary about the husband-and-wife team.*
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*Charles and Ray Eames at home.*
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*Ray Eames with an early prototype of [The Toy](http://www.architonic.com/dcsht/the-toy-wright/4100695) that was made of cardboard triangles, outside the Eames House in 1951.*
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*Ray and Charles Eames select slides for the 1968 exhibition* Photography & the City.
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*Charles and Ray Eames pose on a Velocette motorcycle in 1948.*
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*The Eames House in Pacific Palisades, California.*
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*Ray and Charles Eames photograph an early model of the exhibition* [Mathematica: A World of Numbers ... and Beyond](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica:_A_World_of_Numbers..._and_Beyond) *in 1960.*
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*Ray and Charles Eames examine sling locations to be covered in fabric lapping in a prototype of the [Aluminum Group Lounge Chair](http://hivemodern.com/pages/products.php?sid=1508) in 1957.*
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*The story of design duo Ray and Charles Eames is beautifully told in* Eames: The Architect and the Painter, *the new documentary by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey.*
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