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An Eames Anthology
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Education as a Found Object
Posted July 20, 2020Continue readingCharles and Ray Eames often talked about “found education,” which they defined as...
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Charles Eames asks “How is it going to look in ten years?”
Posted February 10, 2020Continue readingHugh DePree, a CEO of Herman Miller, who worked closely with Charles and Ray Eames, told a...
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MoMA’s 1947 Mies van der Rohe Exhibition Through the Eyes of Charles Eames
Posted November 25, 2019Continue readingThe Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented a retrospective from September through...
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Charles Eames on the function of a jukebox
Posted July 17, 2019Continue readingIn Kansas City, Missouri, October 1952, Charles Eames gave a speech at the American Institute of...
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The Consistency of Structure
Posted July 5, 2019Continue readingEdward P. Morgan, the host of the experimental public television show “Public Broadcast...
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Charles Eames says “To hell with the seats”
Posted June 26, 2019Continue readingThis is one of a series of blogs about An Eames Anthology. Here I highlight an Eames text that...
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Excerpts from An Eames Anthology for Earth Day 2019
Posted April 22, 2019Continue readingCharles and Ray Eames often addressed the issue of environmental sustainability. In this...
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An Eames Anthology: Charles Eames on Chair Evolution
Posted December 10, 2018Continue readingLearn about the evolution of Eames designs from Charles himself, as told to Interiors magazine...
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Charles Eames on the value of Leonardo da Vinci
Posted March 21, 2018Continue readingCharles and Ray frequently invoked Leonardo da Vinci’s example to make arguments about art...
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Eames and the Strathmore Apartments
Posted February 8, 2018Continue readingHow did Charles and Ray’s first home together add to the richness of their lives?