On top of the pleasure to discover Charles and Ray Eames moving and talking, here are two quotes I found interesting, regarding the design practice :

- Is there a basic theory of design for your chairs ?
- There is one that is : the attitude in all of them is really the same, we've never designed for a fashion, or with the idea of fitting in a fashion, and the Herman Miller furniture company has never ever requested that we do pieces for a market (...) the timing is more or less our own and sometimes it's too slow, but we are allowed to follow it through.

Eames desire to move freely in a world of enormous and unlimited possibilities is combined with a very accurate sense of discrimination and taste (...) This is an ability to select among the unlimited possibilities* and return considerable richness to the world.

Discrimination and taste. Wow, right on. I never considered discrimination as being used in a positive way, as it's always associated with "racial" issues. But that's what a designer does, choices.

Nice to see how they hold their hands, when Eames enters the set. Was it common on tv at this time ?

* this word didn't quite passed the "my first language is french" filter, so if anybody reads this and understands it better, I'd appreciate to be corrected, thank you.

Via the Mighty Coudal.

Labels: history, ondesign, tv