Eames and the absurdity of assumed public taste
“He [Eames] never worried much (as many designers do) about ‘what the public wants,’ or ‘what the public will accept,’ because he had a profound belief in the public, and the conviction that if they didn’t want or wouldn’t accept the furniture which he was designing for their use, the fault lay in his designs, not in the public. He knew very well the absurdity of trying to design to an assumed public taste.”
From a 1946 profile of Charles Eames, Via Brainpickings