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The Eames' left an incredible legacy of lifestyle. Their far thought ideas, transcribed, recorded and detailed were tools for representing the American's mastery of science and technology. Their films were a central part of the famous Kitchen Debates between Nixon and Krushchev. Domesticity was an agent of war and the Ladies Home Journal was propagandistic enough to make Goebbels salivate. Check out Beatriz Colomina's 'Domesticity at War' for more....
The Eames' were all around geniuses.
This chair has been on display in the Denver Art Museum for years: http://qa.denverartmuseum.org/explore_art/collections/object...
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sounds_sound · 5012 days ago · link ·
That chair is great. Comfortable and stylish. They were doing a lot of things with laminated wood at that time. Chairs are most well known, but they also manufactured leg-splints during the war which were cheaper and lighter than the bulky metal one the U.S. Army was using at the time.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3878304782_4c55b96869_o.... They also made children's toys...http://www.modernconscience.com/store/media/EamesElephant.jp... what's interesting to me about these as a group of collective objects is their seemingly shared curvilinear form. it's clear that although used for different ostensible purposes, they come from the same genesis.
