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pinned to pavement
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … Charles Eames (1907-1978)! This issue of the UK magazine Architectural Design features a thematic celebration of the work of Charles and Ray Eames. The cover has them “pinned” (like … Continue reading
planned obsolesence :to be unworthy we are
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the critics all talk about how we’ve entered into the era of ‘design as commodity’ like never before. so many designers are household names that we even buy clowns like phillipe stark in big … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, brooks stevens, brooks stevens design, cadillac sea link, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Eames, excalibur sports car design, george nelson modernism, graphic design, Harley Earl, harley earl motorama, henry dreyfuss, jackie gleason golf cart, oscar meyer wienermobile, philip stark, phillipe stark, Ray Eames, raymond leowy, raymond loewy, robin and lucienne day, walter dorwin teague, walter dorwin teague associates
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single handedly george and samurai lumberjack
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) everybody knows all about the eames chair designs. in fact, right now, everything ‘charles and ray eames’ is solid-gold cool standard. whenever my designer friends start talking about 20th century modernism, they always immediately blurt, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american design culture, atomic clock, bill renwick, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Eames, don chadwick, donald knorr, Eames Design, ernest farmer, european design culture, george mulhauser, george nelson modernism, george nelson quatsino artist, harry bertoia, herman miller furniture, irving harper, isamu noguchi, Ray Eames, richard schultz, robert brownjohn, sara anderson, suzanne sekey, tobias o'mara
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designer of genius
Human perfectibility. It does exist…. Art Chantry (art@artchanty.com ) This is one of my all-time favorite posters. it’s from 30 years ago, but I still look at it every once in a while when I need a re-charge in my … Continue reading
like Dada like son
Henry Jenkins is the digital media guru who made the ”if it doesn’t spread its dead” stick as a mantra for today’s media culture where events and personalities are able to get exposure over different media platforms in which each … Continue reading
COGNITIVE ART & IDEAS as a PRODUCT
”Innovate as a last resort” was a famous quote from Charles Eames, and considering the knack of innovation of Charles( 1907-78) and wife Ray Eames ( 1912-88), seems almost counter intuitive and against the grain of their virtuosity.To them, everyday … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Charles Eames, Concordet, Eames Demetrios, Eames Design, Emile Durkheim, Herman Miller, James Joyce, Jean jaques Rousseau, John Berry, Mary Blair, Max Weber, Michael Neault, Mies van der Rohe, Ray Eames, Rene Descartes, Robespierre, Schonberg, Thomas Watson, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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SYMPATHETIC TO THE AESTHETIC OF EXCESS
We are creatures of clutter in an age of clutter. Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. The world is a thingdom. The history of civilization is a history of things, both for survival and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beryl Sokoloff, Charles Eames, Clarence Schmidt, Do Nothing machine, Ferdinand Cheval, Isaiah Zagar, Le Corbusier, Mary Blair, Ray Eames, Richard lacayo, Rolly Crump, Simon Rodia, Walt Disney
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