The World of Charles and Ray Eames

The World of Charles and Ray Eames
Author: Catherine Ince
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780500294628

Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames are among the most important designers of the 20th century, and the story of the Eames Office is that of visual and material culture in the post-war, modern period. The World of Charles and Ray Eames charts the history of their inspiring and prolific world and brings together key works and ideas explored at the Eames Office throughout its extraordinary history.This definitive monograph explores the era-defining work of the Eames Office, a 'laboratory' active for over four decades, where the Eameses and their collaborators produced a vast array of pioneering and influential projects - from architecture, furniture and product design to film, photography, multi-media installation and exhibitions, as well as new models for arts education. Themes include 'The Eames Office: Life in Work', 'At Home with the Eameses', 'Information Machines', 'The Seeing Eye', 'Office USA: Communicating "America" at Home and Abroad', and 'The Art of Living'. Alongside newly commissioned texts by leading design experts, The World of Charles and Ray Eames will include contemporaneous reviews and magazine articles, writings by Charles and Ray Eames themselves, personal correspondence and a comprehensive reference section.

Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames
Author: Pat Kirkham
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262611398

Charles and Ray Eames, perhaps the most famous design partnership of 20th-century America, did pioneering work in furniture, film, architecture, and exhibition design. Now Pat Kirkham interprets their work in depth, probing the lives behind the designs and the nature of the collaboration. 221 illustrations, 16 in color.

Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames
Author: Naomi Stungo
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2000
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Charles and Ray Eames were a highly influential couple whose work included classic pieces of furniture and architecture during the 1940s and 1950s. An essay and an illustrated appreciation of their life and work are included in this text.

Eames Design

Eames Design
Author: John Neuhart
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1989
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Presents the work of Charles and Ray Eames whose design revolutinized the look of postwar American society. Includes every product produced by the Eameses and their office from 1941 to 1978. Over 3,500 illustrations.

An Eames Anthology

An Eames Anthology
Author: Charles Eames
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0300212836

An Eames Anthology collects for the first time the writings of the esteemed American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames, illuminating their marriage and professional partnership of fifty years. More than 120 primary-source documents and 200 illustrations highlight iconic projects such as the Case Study Houses and the molded plywood chair, as well as their work for major corporations as both designers (Herman Miller, Vitra) and consultants (IBM, Polaroid). Previously unpublished materials appear alongside published writings by and about the Eameses and their work, lending new insight into their creative process. Correspondence with such luminaries as Richard Neutra and Eero Saarinen provides a personal glimpse into the advance of modernity in mid-century America.

Eames

Eames
Author: Eames Demetrios
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781934429747

"This massive monograph celebrates Ray's centennial anniversary and the Eameses incredibly diverse interdisciplinary work in depth, including many never-before-published images. Additionally, the book is authored by three generations of the Eames family, including quotes and essays by: Charles and Ray, daughter Lucia Eames, and all five of her children. This very intimate and loving tribute to the Eameses includes personal letters, family photos, and images that document the poetic ephemera of their everyday life, making this book the definitive Eames monograph."--Publishers' description.

Connections, the Work of Charles and Ray Eames

Connections, the Work of Charles and Ray Eames
Author: Charles Eames
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1976
Genre: Design
ISBN:

An examination of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, who did pioneering work in furniture, film, architecture, and exhibition design.

An Eames Primer

An Eames Primer
Author: Eames Demetrios
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0847839443

An in-depth look at Charles and Ray Eames's prolific legacy—one that has placed them among the most important American designers of the twentieth century and at the forefront of modernism. Charles and Ray Eames's expansive and monumental career in furniture design ran from 1941 to 1978. This comprehensive and illustrated text serves as a guidebook to their most important pieces and themes. As beloved figures in design, art, and architecture who emerged from the optimism of the 1950s, the couple’s egalitarian and humanistic furniture designs made them household names. Most famous for their chairs, they also created seminal works of architecture and film. Written by their grandson, Eames Demetrios, An Eames Primer is an easy-to-read and informational book to the world's most famous and influential furniture designers.