Eames: The Architect and the Painter
From 1941 to 1978, the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training, while she was a painter and sculptor. Together, they are considered America’s most distinguished and influential designers. Their work paved the way to shaping the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular until today. Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deaths, and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration as well as their occasional tortured love for one another. Despite their unrivaled impact on American design, the personas of the steadfastly private Eames have remained mysterious beyond the giddy publicity photos they doled out to inquiring journalists while they were alive.
Supported by the US Embassy in Egypt