The Ikea idea Aug 22, 2008
But would Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and even Charles and Ray Eames really be so happy with how things have panned out. They were, after all, design radicals, charged up by the energy of their unrivaled innovations. (AZCentral -- Home)
More of this story Aug 9, 2008
In the Aug. 14 installment, the famous Powers of Ten (1977), the nine-minute short from design demi-gods Charles and Ray Eames, is up. That's followed by Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (the 1972 original, not Steven Soderbergh's remake with George Clooney), in which the cosmonaut/shrink protagonist (shown here) investigates a strange psychological phenomenon aboard the Solaris space station. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Russians discover the joys of the new dacha Jun 6, 2008
A Pierre Paulin sofa, Baccarat crystal chandeliers and a coffee table by Charles and Ray Eames complete the modern vision. The residence decorated by Phillips de Pury and the one masterminded by the Belgian decorator Arne Quinze both showcase contemporary designs by such names as Rolf Sachs, Ron Arad, Shiro Kuramata, Fernando and Humberto Campana and Tom Dixon as well as the architects Frank Gehry and David Adjaye. (International Herald Tribune)
Appeal of '50s cool is simply fine today May 24, 2008
A clutch of Southern California architects and abstract painters felt it, and so did the married designers Charles and Ray Eames. Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck were the quintessence of musical cool. (San Francisco Chronicle)
California Cool May 11, 2008
Crossing genres and art movements to present a snapshot in time, "The Birth of the Cool" showcases all that was new and exciting 50 years ago: William Claxton's jazz photos, furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames, ceramics by James Lovera, Chuck Jones' animation and hard-edged abstract paintings by Helen Lundeberg. Because of its city landmark status, the museum can't just bring in a demolition crew and start anew from the ground up, as the de Young or the California Academy of Sciences... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Competing cold war visions of the future revealed Apr 22, 2008
Fibreglass used in American fighter planes, for example, was later developed and used in the making of chairs by Charles and Ray Eames. The curators have travelled widely through eastern Europe to find objects and prototypes never seen in the UK before and, they say, in many cases never seen outside their designers' studios. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Celebrations Apr 17, 2008
As part of the annual Winter Carnival, on Feb. 3, the Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln will present a series of short films by Charles and Ray Eames. Wed Jan 16, 2008, 01:49 PM EST. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
The extraordinarily inventive Charles and Ray Eames went about their business of designing snazzy, unpretentious, eminently functional chairs, tables and other domestic furnishings without any of the utopian urgency to which early Modernist architects and designers were prone. In the show their short films of spinning toy tops and kaleidoscopically morphing chair fragments accompanied by jazz music appear animated by the childlike wonder they brought to every medium they explored. (International Herald Tribune)
''Birth of the Cool'' showcases artists with designs on the future Feb 29, 2008
The Los Angeles-based Charles and Ray Eames designed and mass-produced hip, arty, and widely accessible furniture ... The designers, artists, and entrepreneurs Charles and Ray Eames dominate the furniture gallery, but they were forces in nearly every medium. (Boston Globe)
Ettore Sottsass Jan 7, 2008
That's what happened in postwar America when furniture companies like Herman Miller and Knoll championed such designers as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Eero Saarinen. The same scenario played out in 1960s Italy when Olivetti, Flos, Kartell and Zanotta harnessed the talent of Sottsass, Castiglioni and Colombo. (International Herald Tribune)
The art of play: Mingei exhibit looks at toys of the world Jan 3, 2008
Another one called "Calder's Circus," shows mobile artist Alexander Calder playing with one of his sculptures at the Whitney Museum in L.A. Designers Charles and Ray Eames are featured in a short film playing with tops, trains and motorcars. The last film is by the Mingei and shows its entire collection of mechanical banks. (North County Times)
Postal Service Previews 2008 Stamps Dec 28, 2007
The stamp art shows the same scene but replaces the product-related words with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game, " the stamp denomination, notes from the music, and the words "United States of America. " Charles and Ray Eames In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you've ever sat in a... (PR Newswire)
Coming soon to a letter near you: New 2008 stamps Dec 28, 2007
" American Scientists: Theoretical physicist John Bardeen, who co-invented the transistor; biochemist Gerty Cori, who made important discoveries that later became the basis for our knowledge of how cells use food and convert it into energy; astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose meticulous studies of spiral nebulae proved the existence of galaxies other than our own Milky Way; and chemist Linus Pauling, who determined the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules and did pioneering work... (Florida Today)
The eyes have it: Bette Davis stars on stamp Dec 28, 2007
Charles and Ray Eames, who made contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts. Among many other things the husband and wife team designed the stackable molded fiberglass chair. (MSNBC -- News)
Library of Congress picks 25 more movies for film registry Dec 28, 2007
Among the other new postage stamps scheduled for next year include Year of the Rat in January, marking the Chinese lunar new year; Charles W. Chesnutt, a pioneering writer recognized today as a major innovator among literary realists who probed the color line in American life; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Yearling" and her memoir "Cross Creek"; Vintage Black Cinema set based on posters for five early movies; "The Art of Disney: Imagination,"... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Classic cool Dec 10, 2007
Orange County Museum of Art Chairs by Charles and Ray Eames have become icons of the era ... Orange County Museum of Art Charles and Ray Eames are probably best known for their chairs, but they designed an array of innovative objects, including the Quadreflex speaker (1956) ... Graphic design had a great life in this period, be it on stylish covers of Arts and Architecture magazine by the likes of Saul Bass or Ray Eames or on a collage-style album cover for Jazz Canto: An Anthology of Poetry and... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The flaws in Frank Lloyd Wright's design for living Aug 26, 2007
He never created any furniture as sleekly modernistic as the chairs of Marcel Breuer or as neatly functional as those of Charles and Ray Eames. The bigger problem, though, is his idea that everything in the indoor environment should conform to one aesthetic. (Boston Globe)
Indie film traces the life of an artist Apr 11, 2007
Norman has been compared to Diego Rivera and Charles and Ray Eames. At 88, he continues to work with a zest for life that shows no signs of flagging. (Mail Tribune, OR)
'He loves people and thrives on company' Mar 30, 2007
Foster and the Rogerses toured the US to see the buildings of Louis Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, but it was the sleek and glamorous industrial-style steel California buildings of Charles and Ray Eames, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig and Ezra Ehrenkrantz that changed their perspective; here was something fresh and exciting, unlike the earnest modern architecture clodhopping across Britain. Although Rogers and Foster parted as professional partners, they were to create what has been labelled hi-tech... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Resiliency is built into LACMAs redesign Mar 28, 2007
He tried to channel Charles and Ray Eames and Pierre Koenig in the entry pavilion. Not since he and Richard Rogers designed the 1977 Pompidou Center in Paris, Piano said last year, had he so fully embraced levity and color in a museum design. (Los Angeles Times)
Cheap plastic chairs Feb 5, 2007
The plastic part of that quest began in the 1950s, when furniture designers, like Charles and Ray Eames and Robin Day, made chair seats from newly invented plastics. The first all-plastic chair, the Universale, was designed by Joe Colombo in 1965. (International Herald Tribune)
The Forgotten Pioneer of Corporate Design Jan 30, 2007
The position gave Noyes a platform to promote his vision of good design, as well as the work of modernist designers including Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, and Marcel Breuer. All four submitted designs to the museum's "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition, the genesis of a 1941 exhibition. (MSNBC -- Business)
While others buy used goods willy-nilly, Ken Erwin of the Venice neighborhood in Los Angeles has an informed, discriminating taste that makes him a quintessentialFlea-market 'picker' Jan 4, 2007
Longtime Santa Monica client Michael Boyd, whose collection includes 150 pieces that were displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998 to 1999, says his best items for the "Sitting on the Edge" show came from Erwin: a 1950s Charles and Ray Eames storage unit, a 1954 Carlo Mollino chair, a 1946 R.M. Schindler seat from the architect's Lechner House in Los Angeles, and a 1928 Le Corbusier chaise longue with its flawless, original canvas. So many people think they know Modern... (Mail Tribune, OR)
Pinch of luck saves cookbook project Dec 28, 2006
It was a Bohemian-like place, with artists such as pioneering modernist painter Peter Krasnow, photographer Edward Weston, designers Charles and Ray Eames and architect John Lautner frequent guests. When she wasn't doing sculptures commissioned by Walt Disney or organizations such as the Braille Institute, Evelyn Gebhardt loved to cook. (Los Angeles Times)
Charles, Ray Eames Sat Up And Took Notice Dec 13, 2006
Once Charles and Ray Eames focused on their target market, the two created three iconic chairs that more than six decades later are staples of public and private seating and helped form the beginnings of modern furniture design. Just about every American alive has sat in a Charles and Ray Eames chair. (Investors Business Daily)
The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design Comes to The Henry Ford February 3 Dec 7, 2006
This traveling exhibit, organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum and Herman Miller, Inc., features more than 30 objects from the creative design partnership of Charles and Ray Eames, the duo who revolutionized the world of furniture design in form and function ... Selections of molded plywood furniture created by Ray and Charles Eames in the 1940s will also be on display, as well as a molded plywood sculpture constructed during the same period by Ray Eames. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Christopher Hawthorne on the Case Study homes Dec 6, 2006
You don't commission houses from Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood and other young architectural luminaries and expect their value to stay flat. At least not if they are never produced in huge quantities. (Los Angeles Times)
Do I Hear $2.5 Million? Nov 15, 2006
Other Case Study houses were designed by Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, and Craig Ellwood. Wright has enlisted the nonagenarian photographer Julius Shulman, closely associated with his 60s-era documentation of the Case Study project, to create a new photographic homage to the residence. (BusinessWeek)
His cache, minus the clutter Nov 2, 2006
Longtime Santa Monica client Michael Boyd, whose vast collection includes 150 pieces that were displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1998 to 1999, says his best items for the "Sitting on the Edge" show came from Erwin: a 1950s Charles and Ray Eames storage unit, a 1954 Carlo Mollino chair, a 1946 R.M. Schindler seat from the architect's Lechner House in Studio City, and a 1928 Le Corbusier chaise longue with its flawless, original canvas. So many people think they know Modern... (Los Angeles Times)
New Exhibit Opens at Price Tower Sep 23, 2006
While one may not question the use of office seating in residential interiors today, Wright s placement of them within the apartment interiors evokes the type of modernity espoused by Warren MacArthur or Charles and Ray Eames in the 1940s and 1950s. Their heavy frames evoked the industrial while their damask boucl/ upholstery, specified in a variety of colorways, gave them domestic warmth. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Pieces Of History Jul 16, 2006
The quilts made a splash in New York , where celebrities such as jazz singer Mabel Mercer and furniture designer Ray Eames bought them at auction. A short-lived contract with Bloomingdale's followed, but by 1972 it was a contract with Sears, Roebuck and Co. to make corduroy pillow covers that accounted for most of the cooperative's work. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Growing up in style Jun 3, 2006
Some parents also are seeking out designers of traditionally adult furnishings, such as Adler and his pottery hippos, elephants and birds, or Charles and Ray Eames' RAR rocker or George Nelson's iconic ball clocks. Modern devotees are loath to call contemporary nurseries a trend. (AZCentral -- Home)
Dogs deserve delightful designs Jun 2, 2006
"If Eames ever made a dog bed, that's what it would look like," says Khayat, referring to the famous furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames, who won serious acclaim for a moulded plywood chair they made in the 1940s. "I can see condo owners wanting something like this," says Ryu. (Toronto Star -- Life)
Eames chair gets its own exhibit May 25, 2006
Dorothy Twining Globus, curator of exhibitions at New York's Museum of Arts n, where the exhibition opened May 18, has a simple answer when asked why the chair designed by husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames remains popular a half-century later. "Why don't you sit in it," she said, and, indeed, the chair is easy to sink into. (AZCentral -- Home)
Pay homage to designs that made a difference May 25, 2006
(With 15 creations getting the Design Classics nod, the American husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is second only to Italian designer Achille Castiglioni for most appearances. . (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Surprise! Milan gets pretty Apr 13, 2006
Eclecticism also manifested itself with material mixes in single objects: lacquer sides and felt pillows on B&B couches, wooden tabletops paired with turned steel legs by Marcel Wanders, or even the ultimate melting pot wood, metal, fabric and leather all thrown together on the Worker chair by Hella Jongerius, the first female designer at Vitra since Ray Eames in the 1960s. While cruising Milan's enormous new fairgrounds for great finds, Dan Friedlander, owner of the San Francisco boutique Limn,... (Los Angeles Times)
Rob Forbes' ruthless vision Mar 29, 2006
DWR's hallmark is its ability to deliver Le Corbusier's cowhide chaise longue, Charles and Ray Eames' sofa or Marcel Breuer's black-strapped Wassily Chair in weeks rather than the months it typically takes an interior designer or architect to order it through a furniture showroom. DWR made its first mail-order sale in 1999. (Los Angeles Times)
Nouveau Brooklyn Mar 3, 2006
Summoning the example of Charles and Ray Eames, who led a midcentury design revolution in Southern California 50 years ago, the Williamsburg set some self-taught, some educated at New York art academies such as Parsons and Pratt, and some formerly apprenticed to industrial designer Karim Rashid are form-follows-function modernists. What binds them is design that is ecologically sensitive and reflects the possibilities of the California lifestyle. (Los Angeles Times)
How to get your home office right Feb 15, 2006
So, however much you fancied a fling with a Marcel Breuer tubular steel and leather icon, or a Charles and Ray Eames plywood masterpiece, you will be better off settling down with a sensible Scandinavian. ALSO IN THIS SECTION. (TimesOnline)
