• Art expert:

Charles Eames made the film "Clown Face" in 1971. Intended as a training film for the Clown College of Barnum & Bailey Circus, the movie depicted "the precise and classical art of applying make-up".

• User:

Charles Eames hired a young Harry Bertoia to design chairs and Bertoia came up with the inventive method of curving plywood and mounting it on a steel rod frame, this was called the Eames chair. (Bertoia soon left for PA to work at Knoll)

• Art expert:

The Eames' are credited with "changing the way the twentieth century sat down". (Washington Post)

• Art expert:

Before moving to furniture design, the Eames' had also spent time during WW2 designing such items as aircraft parts and leg splints, using the same materials they would later use for furniture.

• Art expert:

Though these chairs are a classic and have been reissued for years, the newer versions have been made with polypropylene due to the less ecologically friendly properties of fibreglass.

• Art expert:

They were the first successfully mass-produced molded plastic chairs and the first one-piece plastic chairs with an exposed (rather than upholstered) surface.