Charles + Ray Eames
Product Designers (1907–1978 + 1912-1988)
Early in their careers together, Charles and Ray identified the need for affordable, yet high-quality furniture for the average consumer. For 40 years the Eames experimented with ways to meet this challenge, designing flexibility into their compact storage units and collapsible sofas for the home; seating for stadiums, airports, and schools; and chairs for virtually anywhere.
Like in the earlier moulded plywood work, the Eames pioneered innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass, plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller.
Verner Panton
Architect + Furniture Designer (1926-1998)
Verner Panton introduced a series of modern chairs, environments and lighting with personalities. With a remarkable faith in the unlimited possibilities of traditional forms, he worked successfully to create a new set of theories about how a chair should look and how it should seat someone as well as how vibrant colours could find their way into corporate and residential environments.
He was first to create inflatable furniture, pioneered with the much acclaimed single moulded plastic chair and refused to accept gravity by creating the Flying Chair.
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