The American designers Charles and Ray Eames changed the face of modern furniture design.
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Pre-digested intoduction to Eames with a Bogus Cover,
By Aragorn the Traveler (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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To begin with, I read a lot of books about Charles & Ray Eames and have a great love of mid century modern. This is aimed rather lower. My first complaint is the cover. Whose chair is this? It's certainly not one designed by Eames. The rest of the book is a rehash history in 21 pages of everything you probably know unless this is your first Eames book. The remaining 50 or 60 pages are photos you've seen everywhere, but without the contextual explanation that makes it all fall into place. One example of this lack of contextual explanation is a picture of a platform over someone laying on the grass. There is no mention that this photo set up was for a shot from "The Power of 10". This would be appropriate reading for someone very young as a quick introduction, but if you already know much about Charles and Ray Eames you should make another pick.
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Here is a curious thing: while designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto have gone down in the history books as the "greats" of the twentieth century, you are far more likely to have come across the work of a lesser-known couple - Charles and Ray Eames. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eames office Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eero Saarinen, Los Angeles, Charles Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Miller New!
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Here is a curious thing: while designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto have gone down in the history books as the "greats" of the twentieth century, you are far more likely to have come across the work of a lesser-known couple - Charles and Ray Eames. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eames office Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eero Saarinen, Los Angeles, Charles Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Miller New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Alvar Aalto by Nicholas Ray in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Eames Design by John Neuhart in Back Matter
- Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback) by Philip Morrison in Back Matter
- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention by Donald Albrecht in Back Matter
- Frank Lloyd Wright by Carlton Books in Front Matter
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