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Eames: The Architect and the Painter (12A)
- Director: Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: Narrated by James Franco, with Charles Eames, Ray Eames
- Country: USA
- Language: English
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- Running time: 83 minutes
- Release date: 03 August 2012
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Synopsis
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mindbending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and
toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.