Classic Furniture Design By Charles And Ray Eames
Charles Ormond Eames is a brilliant furniture designer born in 1907. Allready at 14 years old, Charles worked part-time at a steel company where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture. In this periode of his life the idea of one day becoming an architect was emerging.
The Eames’ designed the Eames Sofa Compact in 1954, and it was a new scheme for sofas as it reflected the traditional sofas, but it still provided comfort without all the bulkiness. It was another milestone design for Charles and Ray Eames, iconic American designers and architects, as the sofa used the modernistic, trimmed down design, in order to achieve such compactness. It was picked up and was and is still exclusively manufactured by Herman Miller in the US, and Vitra in Europe. The Compact Sofa still kept the basics of a ordinary sofa, but doesn’t occupy all the space, as the Compact sofa fits where most sofa don’t. This type of sofa is ideal for people with minimal house space or someone with all the space in the world as it is effective on both fronts.
The Eames’ designed the sofa with compactness in mind, but they did nothing to take away from the luxury and elegance that a basic sofa could hold. The Compact Sofa was originally intended the design for their own home in Los Angeles, but ended up making it a series production. The Compact Sofa’s demeanour is slim, tall, and having a slight angular silhouette, and in addition, it is a sofa that can move anywhere easily as it is collapsible for easy transportation and storage purposes. The Compact Sofa is designed to fit in to any room d