The giant capital E, which helps make up an oversize EAMES, holds objects related to the words. “When I was working on the history wall in the "Mathematica" exhibition in 1961, I was setting the biographies of all the mathematicians for the timeline, which had a tremendous amount of type,” says Sussman. “Charles insisted that the type be set in all capital letters because they were bigger. There was no arguing such a thing as, ‘Books have been printed in lower case for centuries for a reason.’ Charles said to me, ‘Oh, that’s just something they taught you in school.’” Photo 2 of 10 in Eames Words by Erika Heet

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The giant capital E, which helps make up an oversize EAMES, holds objects related to the words. “When I was working on the history wall in the "Mathematica" exhibition in 1961, I was setting the biographies of all the mathematicians for the timeline, which had a tremendous amount of type,” says Sussman. “Charles insisted that the type be set in all capital letters because they were bigger. There was no arguing such a thing as, ‘Books have been printed in lower case for centuries for a reason.’ Charles said to me, ‘Oh, that’s just something they taught you in school.’”