![]() Arguably the most influential American designers of the postwar period, the Eameses were a model happy couple whose iconic designed objects and design practice were exported globally as symbols of the cheery lifestyle afforded by U.S.-style democratic liberalism. Yet even as the chart gestures to midcentury happiness as a product of calculation and technique, Saarinen’s high rating of the Eameses was entirely in keeping with their public image. Saarinen’s approach may strike us as rather technical, perhaps overly quantitative or schematic. 1 At the top - with a whopping 90 percent score - are his dear friends Charles and Ray Eames. ![]() ![]() Īmong the personal papers of the architect and designer Eero Saarinen is a curious chart of the marriages of his friends, ranking their relative happiness on a scale from 0 to 100 percent. Ray and Charles Eames with one of their aluminum chairs for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, ca.
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