Mar 29, 2012 2:21 PM
I came to appreciate Ray and Charles Eames late in my architectural career. So late in fact that it was only in mid December that I came to fully appreciate the genius of their epic home built in 1949 in Pacific Palisades, California.
Yes, I had seen it published for decades since my college days. But black and white photographs hardly did it justice, and subsequent color photos never quite convinced me that this industrial/off-the-shelf component kit of parts of steel and glass was worth all the hype. Sure it was clever, but wasn’t it just a wink and a nod to California-based architects by the East Coast architectural establishment so they could wallow in their own innovation and success?
The Eameses’ collaboration on furniture and accessories was certainly innovative, modern, functional,... more
Yes, I had seen it published for decades since my college days. But black and white photographs hardly did it justice, and subsequent color photos never quite convinced me that this industrial/off-the-shelf component kit of parts of steel and glass was worth all the hype. Sure it was clever, but wasn’t it just a wink and a nod to California-based architects by the East Coast architectural establishment so they could wallow in their own innovation and success?
The Eameses’ collaboration on furniture and accessories was certainly innovative, modern, functional,... more
