A film record of the Eames-designed IBM Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. Fast-cutting and time-lapse photography create a high-speed montage of visitors moving through the various attractions in the pavilion, revealing patterns of movement not apparent in real-time footage. There is a glimpse of The People Wall being lifted into the Ovoid…
In 1967 Herman Miller Inc sponsored an International Conference for thirteen of its licensees from Europe, South America, and Japan. The group, invited to meet each of Herman Miller’s three top designers, was taken first to New York City to meet George Nelson and then to Chicago and the Herman Miller corporate headquarters in Zeeland,…
Originally entitled Excellence , G.E.M. , or Government, Education, and Management , was a 345-image, 3-screen, (115-pass) slide show. It was first seen in Miami, Florida, in March 1967 at an I.B.M. Corporation “Corporate Recognition Event” for the I.B.M.’s “Hundred Percent Club.” The Images and narration addressed favorite Eames lecture topics: the need to look…
Generally speaking, the Eames Contract Storage (ECS) is a system of storage, study, and sleeping units. Its key features included a minimum space requirement, flexible arrangement, and it qualified for long-term government financing, because it was so well constructed that it could be considered as a capital improvement. That’s a very remarkable standard for furniture…
Produced to introduce the functions and design properties of the Eames Contract Storage units. This innovative use of live-action and animation accompanies an Eames script which includes the famous Eames quote “The details are not details, they made the architecture – the gauge of the wire, the selection of the wood, the finish of the…
What we now call Eames Executive Chairs were for many years known the “Time Life” chairs, after the name of the place where they were first installed, in the Time Life Building in New York City. The chairs they designed in this building’s lobby are still produced today. Herman Miller calls it the Executive Chair,…
As designers, Charles and Ray wanted to be of service, and solving problems for friends was a good starting point. This particular furniture line has always been known unofficially as the “La Fonda Group,” because its genesis was a response to what Alexander Girard needed for his new restaurant, La Fonda Del Sol, in the prestigious…
The Eames Chaise Lounge was designed for film director and Eames friend Billy Wilder. In 1955, while filming in Nova Scotia for The Spirit of St. Louis, Wilder took an afternoon nap on an improvised bench: a 6-foot-by-12-inch plank resting on two sawhorses. For Charles and Ray, this sparked an idea. Eames Chaise Lounge Wilder…
The Eames Office created the graphic design work above to accompany its film, A Computer Glossary.
Drawing on analogies between the function of the feedback principle in everyday situations, and the way it works in the modern computer, this film explores this cycle by which performance is measured, evaluated against desired results, and corrected for future performance. The film draws analogies between the function of the feedback principle in everyday situations…
As designers, Charles and Ray wanted to be of service, and solving problems for friends was a good starting point. This particular furniture line has always been known unofficially as the “La Fonda Group,” because its genesis was a response to what Alexander Girard needed for his new restaurant, La Fonda Del Sol, in the prestigious…
Powers of Ten: A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of the Universe is a concept that investigates the idea of an exponential series. This is done by illustrating the relative size of things and the significance of adding a zero to any number: thus,…
