What is Design?

DATE - 1969

In 1969, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs invited five designers to participate in the exhibition, Qu’est ce que le design? (What is Design?)  Each participant represented his country: Joe Colombo (Italy), Charles Eames (USA), Fritz Eichler (Germany), Werner Panton (Denmark), and Roger Tallon (France). The five participants submitted work from their offices and printed responses to a series of questions about the nature of the design process.

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The Eames room, entitled Three Clients, showed work that Charles and Ray had produced for Herman Miller, IBM, and the governments of the United States and India. The space featured a version of the three-screen slideshow GEM. It also included floor-to-ceiling photographic blow-ups of the questions posed to Charles by the museum, along with his responses.

The Eames Office later created the short film Design Q&A, which they based upon the exchange of questions and answers.

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