Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles Eames

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames