Catherine Ince is Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, where she specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary architecture and design. Eames Demetrios is the director of the Eames Office and chairman of the Eames Foundation.. Patricia Kirkham is a professor at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. Dr. Eric Schuldenfrei is the author of The Films of Charles and Ray Eames.Anthony Acciavatti is principal at the architectural firm Somatic- Collaborative, NY. Sam Jacob is Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Alison Moloney is Curator and Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion.
"Among the most beloved designers of the American Midcentury
movement, the Eames were also prolific artists in multimedia. See
it all in this collection."
-THE SOCIETY DIARIES
"The humble Eames chair—with its fiberglass seat perched on a
four-legged metal base—might just be the poster child
for midcentury-modern furniture, its balance of form and
function perfectly summing up the popular design theory of the era.
Now a new book provides an inside look at the life of its creators,
Charles and Ray Eames. . . The World of Charles and Ray
Eames showcases the design duo through the decades with
photographs of their graphic, forward-looking home as well as their
endlessly innovative office. Pictures of their creations—the famous
Eames lounge chair, an abundance of toys for children, a molded
plywood splint developed for the U.S. Navy—join a selection of
reprinted texts, archival images, and hand-scrawled letters and
pages ripped straight from the notepads of the designers
themselves."
-ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
"Charles and Ray truly embodied Californian modernism. You cannot
help but smile at image after image of this handsome and healthy
couple working alongside other equally sunny faced artists and
designers in their Eames Office. Here they collectively
experimented with new material, finding new solutions for
sustainable products, creating movies, stills and architectural
models for living. Their energy is intoxicating, almost bouncing
off the pages of this book."
-d-talks.com
"At long last - the first comprehensive book in over a decade on
the legacy of two of the most important 20th century designers,
Charles and Ray Eames."
-ARRAY MAGAZINE
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