“The Fabulous Fifties” was a television program broadcast on January 22, 1960, on the CBS network. The program produced by Leland Hayward for CBS, recapped the significant events of the 1950s and included six film segments made by the Eames Office. The short film segments, designed as visual interludes to be shown between appearances by…
“The Fabulous Fifties” was a television program broadcast on January 22, 1960, on the CBS network. The program produced by Leland Hayward for CBS, recapped the significant events of the 1950s and included six film segments made by the Eames Office. The short film segments, designed as visual interludes to be shown between appearances by…
“The Fabulous Fifties” was a television program broadcast on January 22, 1960, on the CBS network. The program produced by Leland Hayward for CBS, recapped the significant events of the 1950s and included six film segments made by the Eames Office. The short film segments, designed as visual interludes to be shown between appearances by…
In 1961, two new terminal buildings were opened at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and the developers of this airport needed new seating. Around the same time, long-time Eames friend, Eero Saarinen, also asked for new public seating for an airport he was designing, the Washington DC area Dulles Airport. The Eames Tandem Seating was first…
In 1961, two new terminal buildings were opened at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and the developers of this airport needed new seating. Around the same time, long-time Eames friend, Eero Saarinen, also asked for new public seating for an airport he was designing, the Washington DC area Dulles Airport. The Eames Tandem Seating was first…
In 1961, two new terminal buildings were opened at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, and the developers of this airport needed new seating. Around the same time, long-time Eames friend, Eero Saarinen, also asked for new public seating for an airport he was designing, the Washington DC area Dulles Airport. The Eames Tandem Seating was first…
The chairs in the Eames Soft Pad Group are distinguished by their upholstered sling form, with deep, thickly padded, double-needle top stitch cushions affixed to the textile, which is suspended on a cast aluminum frame. There is a side chair, executive chair (high back), and lounge and ottomans in this group. All available with or…
The History and Technology Division of the Smithsonian Institution asked the Eames Office to design the housing for a 19th century carved wooden carousel in its collection. The structure, which was intended for the Mall in Washington D.C. near the Smithsonian buildings, needed to be open and accessible during the day, but visible and protected…
Based on the characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes uses his master of two-valued logic to solve a baffling problem. The second of two film records of animatronic puppet shows presented at the New York World’s Fair of 1964-65, the film uses the characters of Holmes and Watson to demonstrate an important aspect…
In 1964 the Eames Office introduced their most complex, most versatile system of table bases, the Segmented Base Tables. Like many of the Eames chair designs, the Eames segmented base is a systems approach to design. There are two functional aspects to this system: The bases can be configured in a variety of different ways,…
This 14.5×42-inch poster was made by the Eames Office in 1967. It offered a timeline of modern design in America from 1925 to 1965, illustrating the development of products manufactured at Herman Miller. The poster has the same characteristics as other Eames timelines in that it features historically significant events to flesh out each period….
The images for Picasso, a 96-slide, 3-screen (32-pass) slide show, were photographed by Charles during an impromptu, one-hour visit to an exhibition of Picasso’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The images, close-ups, and details of sculpture, paintings, and drawings, provide intimate views of many of the exhibited items. The…
