Uniqlo launches collection celebrating the careers of Ray and Charles Eames
Multicoloured slippers and T-shirts decorated with Wire chair prints feature in Uniqlo's new collection, which is dedicated to American design couple Charles and Ray Eames.
With its Sprz NY Eames collection, the Japanese high street brand wanted to celebrate the contribution designers Ray and Charles Eames made to 20th century design, architecture and culture.
Unisex garments, including T-shirts, blankets and slippers, are each decorated with pieces of Eames-designed furniture, or patterns reminiscent of their style.
"Among the most influential designers of the 20th century, Charles and Ray Eames transformed how people experienced and observed the world through furniture, architecture, public spaces, and films," said Uniqlo, which worked alongside the Eames Office to produce the collection. "Like Uniqlo, Charles and Ray believed that good design and quality objects should be available to all," the brand continued. "This belief underpinned their work with innovative materials to celebrate the uncommon beauty of common things and to uplift people in their everyday lives."
Some of the Eames' most famous chair designs feature on one T-shirt, in a print that sees the likes of the Wire, lounge and plastic chairs arranged in a circle.
Another T-shirt depicts a group of Wire chairs ? designed by the duo in the 1950s ? while a further has multicoloured drawings of the lounge chair spread across the chest.
As well as literal depictions of iconic furni...
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