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Charles Eames Quotes

1907–1978 United States

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture.

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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Designers should only innovate as a last resort.

One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose.

I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.

Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.

The details are not the details. These make the design.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

to Charles Eames in: Georgia Bizios (1998)

[Design is] an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Eames (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.