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

~Charles Eames

Topics: Design Details Make

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

~Charles Eames

Topics: Connections Connects Eventually Everything Ideas Key Objects People Per Quality

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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Condition Design Need Primary Recognizing

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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Accomplish Arranging Best Design Elements Particular Plan Purpose Such A Way Way

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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Address Class Design Does Enlightened Greatest Greatest Number Itself Matter Need Number Privileged Social Social Class Specialist Whom

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Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

~Charles Eames

Topics: About Always Cheap Communicating Discoveries Ideas Make Others Passionate Things Those You

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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

~Charles Eames

Topics: Does Going How Look Problem Questions Real Solve Ten Ten Years Years

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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Architecture Design Direct Idea More Pleasurable Route

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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Because Chain Each Leads Next Reaction Subject Work

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The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Connections Details End Give In The End Life Make Product Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Designer

Born: June 17th, 1907

Died: August 21st, 1978

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