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The Eames House | 1951

“The Eames House is a landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture located at 203 North Chautauqua Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was constructed in 1949 by husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames, to serve as their home and studio.”

I couldn’t imagine a better way to conclude the week. More stunning photography by Peter Stackpole for Life Magazine at The Retronaut.

Tags Architecture Interiors Photography Black and White The Eames House Eames Charles and Ray Eames Pacific Palisades California California Modern Mid-Century Modern 1950s Love

 Source retronaut.co

anniewerner:

jessbennett:

The California Modern Design exhibit at LACMA in Los Angeles. Annie and I got a private tour thanks to LACMA’s fantastic tumblr-keeper.

Clockwise from top: Eames chairs; the 1950 cocktail table by Milo Baughman, described by Everywoman’s Magazine as “the heart, soul and center of a home”; and Eames’ living room, literally taken from his home in Pacific Palisades and transplanted into LACMA.

Actually that’s my house.

All of this.

Tags Design Eames California Modern Exhibitions LACMA Furniture Interiors Mid-Century Modern

Reblogged from annie werner  Source jessbennett

abitlate: curiositycounts: I love everything about the design of this poster for the film, Ray & Charles Eames: The Architect and the Painter. But I love that PBS has the entire film available to watch here even more.  Well worth watching even if one of my students (correctly) said it took a Lifetime approach to designer hagiography.

abitlate:

curiositycounts:

I love everything about the design of this poster for the film, Ray & Charles Eames: The Architect and the Painter. But I love that PBS has the entire film available to watch here even more. 

Well worth watching even if one of my students (correctly) said it took a Lifetime approach to designer hagiography.

Tags Design Film Eames Eames The Architect and The Painter Posters A Lifetime Approach To Design Hagiography

Reblogged from A bit late  Source curiositycounts

In Metropolis: Going Back Outside (Again)

Courtesy Herman Miller

abitlate:

Sometimes it takes a midcentury modern dream team to create a chair: Alexander Girard, visiting Charles Eames, talks about the J. Irwin Miller House he has just completed with Eero Saarinen. But he has a complaint: while there are Saarinen chairs for the dining table, and he has devised a conversation pit to replace the pedestrian sofa, he can’t find outdoor furniture for the patio. “As we were trying to analyze the reasons why there was nothing on the market to suit him, why we were of course starting to write a program for designing the object to fill this void,” Eames told Interiors magazine in 1958. The object that resulted is the Eames Aluminum Group, a set of furniture in continuous production since that date—albeit primarily for indoor use.

Read the rest in Metropolis’s June issue, or here.

Tags Design Furniture Chairs Eames Girard Herman Miller Alexandra Lange

Reblogged from A bit late  Source abitlate