Little tables are a big trend Aug 7, 2008
Not that occasional tables are new; Eileen Gray and Charles Eames created elegant, iconic versions in glass, chrome and walnut that are still staples of contemporary decor. But there are many witty, practical and pretty new designs worth checking out. (AZCentral -- Home)
There's a lesson in all this Jul 13, 2008
Furniture is mid-century modern design classics by Charles Eames. There are Jasper Morrison stacking chairs, bar stools by Konstantin Grcic. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Ralph Rapson, at 93; was noted modernist architect Apr 4, 2008
He earned architecture degrees from the University of Michigan and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he studied with Finnish architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames. He taught at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1942 to 1946 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1954 while also maintaining an architecture practice. (Boston Globe)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
Eames Office Charles Eames in a 1950s Eames chair. Text Size. (International Herald Tribune)
Couple take the '70s back to the '50s Mar 8, 2008
An Eames lounge chair and ottoman, designed by Ray and Charles Eames in the mid-1950s, joins a sofa upholstered in purple fabric and a table designed by Isamu Noguchi ... Invest in reproduction furniture and accessories by classic designers, such as Ray and Charles Eames. (AZCentral -- Home)
Furniture designed by architects: Pricey, impractical and very desirable Mar 2, 2008
That has been the preserve of designers, since the postwar era, when Charles Eames, George Nelson and others turned industrial design into a profession. "The design of everyday products is a process of integration of ergonomic, aesthetic, commercial, technical, ecological and other considerations, which requires a long and often frustrating process of trial and error, and this is the domain of the designer in cooperation with the manufacturer," said Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of Vitra, the Swiss... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Bauhaus Furniture Design at Knoll Mar 1, 2008
In 1940, two Cranbrook teachers, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, won the Museum of Modern Art s international competition for furniture design, effectively bringing legitimacy to what American designers were doing. Cranbrook became renowned as a smithy for top-notch artists forged in the fire of Bauhaus ideals and craftsmanship. (Suite101.com)
Classic cool Dec 10, 2007
In our turbulent times, there is a collective yearning for the exuberance of a Ray and Charles Eames chair, with its organic contours, or the airy, straight-line geometric spaces of houses by Los Angeles architects Pierre Koenig, John Lautner or Richard Neutra. Life wasn't less turbulent then there was the Cold War, after all but we like to imagine it was, which seems like one lure of this work. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Zahid Sardar: Design Spotting: World Design Congress Oct 14, 2007
Charles Eames' famous response to that question in 1972, during an interview with Madame L'Amic of the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris, was, "Design is an expression of purpose. It may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art.". Hedge gallery has picked up the gauntlet. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style Oct 1, 2007
Charles Eames and Paul Rand, before ending with Philippe Starck, Jasper Morrison and Tibor Kalman. There are other contenders, but like all of the above, they're mostly male, and mostly designers of furniture or print, because that's what fills design museums and design history books. (International Herald Tribune)
A frenzy for furnitureas art Jan 22, 2007
It's a popular question, and my favorite answer came from the mid-20th century American designer Charles Eames. "Design is an expression of purpose," he said. (International Herald Tribune)
