Charles Eames

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

— Charles Eames

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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. ↗

— Charles Eames

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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

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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. ↗

— Charles Eames

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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

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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

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Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? ↗

— Charles Eames

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Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ↗

— Charles Eames

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It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. ↗

— Charles Eames

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

— Charles Eames

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