"Many people were afraid to sit on them…we were a little bit afraid, too…it’s hard to think of now, but we were just not used to sitting on anything as thin as that that felt that it would be strong."

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Ray Kaiser Eames, discussing the reaction to the chairs designed by herself and her husband Charles that were exhibited at MOMA in 1946 (possibly something like this). Charles Eames would have turned 105 years old today.

Oral history interview with Ray Eames, 1980 July 28-Aug. 20.