The World of Charles and Ray Eames

Ince, Catherine; Johnson, Lotte

ISBN 10: 0500518300 / ISBN 13: 9780500518304

Published by Barbican and Thames & Hudson, UK, 2015

About this Item

33 x 25cm. Hardcover with dustjacket (which constitutes a poster when fully unfolded), 319pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition held from October 21 2015 to February 14 2016 at Barbican Art Gallery, London, and published by them in association with Thames and Hudson. Rare edition. 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 pioneering and influential projects from architecture, furniture and product design to film, photography, multimedia installation and exhibitions, as well as new models for arts education. Alongside newly commissioned texts by leading design experts are writings by Charles and Ray Eames themselves, personal correspondence, etc. Sections include 'Contemporary Practice: The Eameses in the 1940s' by Eames Demetrios, 'Affection for Objects' by Esther McCoy, 'Eames House' by John Winter, 'Charles and Ray Eames, the Proto-Brutalists' by Steve Parnell, 'At Home with the Eameses: Performance, Hosting and Hospitality' by Pat Kirkham, 'Dress of Charles and Ray Eames' by Alison Moloney, 'Context as Destiny: The Eameses from Californian Dreams to the Californiafication of Everywhere' by Sam Jacob, 'Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames' by Paul Schrader, 'Travelling Eameses' by Elizabeth St George, 'Celebrating Connections: From Aby Warburg's Iconology of the Interval to the New Kinds of Models of Charles and Ray Eames' by Lotte Johnson, 'Art X: The Georgia Experiment' by George Nelson, 'Towards a Communication-Oriented Society' by Anthony Acciavatti, 'Communicating America: Moscow, 1959' by Luke Naessens, 'Squaring the Hypothetical Circle: Getting Around Mathematics' by Kristen Gallerneaux, 'Think' by Amy Gallick, 'Peaks of Perpetual Excitement: Exhibition-Making at the Eames Office' by Barbara Fahs Charles, 'Artefacts of Innovation' by Eric Schuldenfrei, and many reproductions of original source material. Near fine condition.A heavy book, may need extra postage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World of Charles and Ray Eames
• Publisher: Barbican and Thames & Hudson, UK
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500518300
• ISBN 13: 9780500518304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.