Avoiding bad habits the Eames way

In preparing for a visit to NeoCon 2009, I’ve been doing a fair bit of research on the utterly fascinating lives of Charles and Ray Eames.

The Eameses, as most of you know, created, well, everything. Furniture. Graphics. Sculptures. Medical equipment. Films.

In the 1930s, Charles, at the time somewhat frustrated with his architectural practice, picked up and left for Mexico. There, wandering and scraping for money, he made a decision. He vowed not to

“take any . . . job — the objective of which yo