Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ray Eames

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The result of the debate was keep - nomination withdrawn --r3m0t ^talk 22:54, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Eames

Famous designer? If this were so, I would be able to find non-wikipedia hits on Google. I can't. r3m0t ^talk 13:31, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, I get about 73,900 non-wikipedia hits. This one is from the Library of Congress. Kappa 14:32, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, I did the same Google search as Kappa. Charles and Ray Eames were a notable husband-and-wife team of American furniture designers. FreplySpang (talk) 14:52, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Ultimate doubleplus x-treme keep. Highly notable. Surname pronounced exactly like "Ames," BTW. Can't imagine why you couldn't Google her. Try "Office of Charles and Ray Eames." The Eames chair. The "House of Cards" toy/sculpture/thingy. The movie "Powers of Ten." The couple was among those honored in Apple's "Think Different" poster series ad campaign a while back, although as the pictures were never captioned it wasn't obvious if you didn't know how they looked. See http://www.eamesoffice.com/ and http://www.powersof10.com . Oh, they designed museum exhibits sponsored by IBM, "Astronomia" at the American Museum of Natural History and "Mathematica" at the Boston Museum of Science and perhaps elsewere. "Mathematica" is still there. I think it must have been there for three decades! Very nice exhibits, even if phrases like "World peace through world trade" (an old IBM motto) have a tendency to pop up here and there, like Nina in an Al Hirschfeld cartoon. Oh, did I mention the IBM exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair? Dpbsmith (talk) 17:21, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

P. S. And I'm NOT particularly big on architecture or design, it's just that the Eames' did something infinitely cool about twice per decade. If you don't know what the Eames chair is: you'd recognize if it you saw it, and probably half of all comfy non-secretarial expensive leather swivel chairs are knock-offs of it. Oh, and they designed the relatively comfy row-seating (black seats, shiny metal frames) you see in half the airports I've ever been in. These. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:25, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

P. P. S. We have a whole article on their Powers of Ten movie. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:32, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and allow for organic growth. --GRider\^talk 18:45, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I think I made some sort of mistake here. Can I withdraw this? r3m0t ^talk 19:31, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

• • Maybe put "withdrawn" in italics under the title, and it's probably safe to take off the Vfd notice too, no-one's going to vote "delete" now. Kappa 21:04, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Sorry if I went on and on. Mistakes happen. No harm done. By the way, the Powers of Ten movie is just unbelievably cool and worth seeking out. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:08, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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