An Eames anthology : articles, film scripts, interviews, letters, notes, speeches /: articles, film scripts, interviews, letters, notes, speeches. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Charles and Ray Eames ; edited by Daniel Ostroff.
• Authors: Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray
• Editors: Ostroff, Daniel
• Contents: Foreword / Eames Demetrios -- Acknowledgments / Daniel Ostroff -- Introduction / Daniel Ostroff -- Part 1: 1941-1949. "Design today" : "Organic design" ; Covers for California arts & architecture, 1942 ; Covers for California arts & architecture, 1943 ; "City Hall" ; "Line and color" ; "A new emergency transport splint of plyformed wood" ; Covers for Arts & architecture, 1944 ; Mass-produced housing ; "No man is an illand" ; "Case study houses 8 and 9" (1945) ; Evans Molded Plywood Products ; Covers for Arts & architecture, 1947 ; "Mies van der Rohe" ; "Esthetic qualities in architecture" ; "We live in one of the newest houses in California" ; "Case study houses 8 and 9" (1948) ; USC lecture on design ; Advice for students ; Richard Neutra apartments : correspondence ; "Designer Charles Eames tests prize-winning furniture in his own home" ; "Case study house for 1949" ; Case study houses : Truscon Steel Products -- Part 2: 1950-1959. "Case study house 9" (1950) ; Case study houses : correspondence ; Molded plastic chairs ; Eames storage units ; Designs for kites ; "Design today" : Arboretum speech ; Japanese tea house : correspondence ; "The relation of artist to industry" ; "Design, designer, industry" ; Packaging for soap : correspondence ; Upholstered wire chairs : correspondence ; AIA 1952 speech ; "Japanese architecture and the west" ; Royalties for furniture designers : correspondence ; Chair design process ; MGM's executive suite : correspondence ; Architecture 1 and 2, University of California, Berkeley ; Washington University School of Architecture : correspondence ; How the chairs are made : correspondence ; Upholstery for furniture : correspondence ; Buying a new Ford : correspondence ; "A communications primer" : correspondence ; Visit to Germany : exchange program of the German government, 1954/55 ; Compact sofa ; Lounge chair and ottoman ; Omnibus ; Toy orthopter : correspondence ; "Toccata for toy trains" : correspondence and narration ; Fine art and function : correspondence ; Staffing the Eames office : correspondence ; Art education in public schools ; "The making of a craftsman" ; Stephens Trusonic speakers ; "St. Louis Train Station 1957" ; Furnishing a home ; Aluminum group ; "The India report" ; "Architecture in miniature" ; The solar toy ; Glimpses of the U.S.A. : correspondence ; Industrial arts education : correspondence ; Royal Institute of British Architects 1959 Annual Discourse. Part 3: 1960-1969. "A prediction: less self-expression for the designer" ; Architects and science : letter to Reyner Banham from Charles Eames ; Making good designs better ; "The design of mathematics" (some notes about doing a mathematics exhibition) ; What must a drumstick do? : correspondence ; Design education : correspondence ; "Architecture and science" : ICA speech ; "A visit with Charles Eames" ; Eames contract storage ; U.S. State Department ; "Chairs, fairs, and films" ; Films on architecture : correspondence ; "Evolution of a design" : Eames tandem seating ; Industry Film Producers Association speech ; "Design : its freedoms and its restraints" ; Handwritten notes on design ; Graphex speech : the 1964-65 New York World's Fair ; A twenty-five-year appraisal ; Immaculate Heart ; "Excellence" ; Gio Ponti ; "Art and science" speech ; 100 words on symptoms of creativity ; "The Eames design" : Public Broadcast Laboratory ; "The Eames design" : correspondence ; "Eames" : an interview ; "Sitting back with Charles Eames" : Eames chaise ; National Aquarium : correspondence ; "What is design?" : an exhibition at the Louvre ; Puerto Rico Advisory Council on Natural Resources : correspondence ; "Poetry of ideas : the films of Charles Eames" ; MIT report -- Part 4: 1970-1979. Eames to Fehlbaum : correspondence ; Eero Saarinen's trick ; "Banana leaf" parable ; "Goods" ; "General Motors revisited" ; "Renaissance man" ; "Q & A : Charles Eames" ; "Eames on Eames" ; "Disciplines of the circus" ; "The language of vision : the nuts and bolts" ; Design process at Herman Miller ; An Eames celebration : the several worlds of Charles and Ray Eames ; "Innovator in Earth Shoes" ; Arts, education, and the Americas ; Library of Congress : correspondence ; Eero Saarinen ; "Education as a found object" ; "A conversation with Charles Eames" ; St. Louis Oral History Project : interview with Charles Eames ; Notes on "Powers of ten" ; U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange -- Part 5: 1980-1986. "Warehouse full of ideas" ; Letter to Ronald Reagan ; Note to Rolf Fehlbaum ; From Business as unusual.
• Publisher Details: New Haven London : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 402 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 728.8092; Design -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Eames furniture; Design -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Meubles Eames; ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential; HOUSE & HOME -- Design & Construction; Design; Eames furniture; United States; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300212839; 0300212836
• Related ISBNs: 9780300203455; 0300203454
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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