Thursday, January 3, 2013

Ray Eames!

 

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Bernice Alexandra “Ray” Kaiser (1912-1988) was born in Sacramento, California  and together with her husband Charles Eames (1907-1978)  gave shape to America’s twentieth century.

 

Charles and Ray Eames

They were in fact the most influential designers of the mid 20th century,  designing furniture, working in the field of architecture, film, photographic art, industrial design and more!

 

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Ray and Charles were responsible for many classic, iconic designs, their molded plywood chair was called "the chair of the century".

 

 

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Other iconic pieces:

 

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Ray and Charles in their living room.


From  New Advertising site “Fifteen things Charles and Ray teach us”

  1. Keep good company
  2. Notice the ordinary.
  3. Preserve the ephermal.
  4. Design not for the elite, but for the masses.
  5. Explain it to a child.
  6. Get lost in the content.
  7. Get to the heart of the matter.
  8. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
  9. Rembember your responsibility as a storyteller.
  10. Zoom out.
  11. Switch.
  12. Prototype it.
  13. Pun.
  14. Make design your life. (And life, your design.)
  15. Leave something behind.

I believe this sums up very well their aesthetic and their philosophy.

Regarding comments received I am happy to say that Robin was the first to answer correctly, unfortunately we don’t know who Robin is, since we don’t have a link to a website or a blog but nevertheless…congratulations!

You can read the other comments on my previous post Can you guess who she is?

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5 comments:

Nancy Bendtsen said...

Thank you! I'm passing it around. I love the 15 rules the best.
Nancy

Transformations Home Stylists said...

Hi - Robin here. I do have a business called Transformations Home Stylists and thought I had included the links when I submitted my answer. Here they are if you would so kindly post them:

THS on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Transformations-Home-Stylists/100426790040883?ref=tn_tnmn

THS Blog:
http://www.transformationshomestylists.blogspot.com/

Thank You- Happy New Year!

peggy braswell said...

Congratulations Robin + thanks for posting the winner! xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

Coulda shoulda woulda said...

Aw shucks - i was going to pretend to be Robin!

J/K...

Loved seeing the pics of them - great post about them.

Unknown said...

Wonderful blog & good post.Its really helpful for me,Thank You..


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