{"id":33667,"date":"2016-05-03T15:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=33667"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T17:38:41","slug":"best-interior-design-books-story-eames-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/best-interior-design-books-story-eames-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Interior Design Books: The Story of Eames Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best Interior Design Books: The Story of Eames Furniture<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Now available again, this lavish publication tells The story of Eames furniture in \u00adunparalleled detail on 800 pages with more than 2,500 images.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:\u00a0HOW TO DECORATE A BIG LIVING ROOM WITH BRASS TABLES<\/a><\/p>\n

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In this unique publication, Marilyn and John Neuhart tell the story, to paraphrase Charles Eames himself, of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is. The Story of Eames Furniture is a biography\u2009 not of an individual person, but of arguably the most influential and important furniture brand of our time. Brimming with more than 2,500 images and insider information, this two-volume book in a slipcase sheds new light on the context in which the furniture of Charles and Ray Eames was created. It documents in unparalleled detail how the design process in the Eames Office developed as well as the significant roles played by specific designers and manufacturers.<\/p>\n

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Volume 1 presents the early years of the Eames Office and its method of furniture design and development. It introduces not only Charles and Ray Eames, but also key members of their design team including Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Herbert Matter, and others\u2009a widely diverse group of people who did the day-by-day work on the furniture projects and who together ultimately turned contemporary design in a new direction. This volume also focuses on Charles Eames\u2019s early work with plywood and how he adapted plywood-molding techniques into a system to mass-produce furniture.<\/p>\n

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Volume 2 features the period from the aftermath of the Second World War through 1978, the year of Charles Eames\u2019s death and of the effective, functional end of the Eames Office. By explaining the pioneering industrial processes used with innovative materials such as fiberglass, wire, and aluminum, it provides incomparable insight into how new technologies served as the genesis for the most interesting pieces of Eames furniture. This volume also focuses on the role of the Herman Miller Furniture Company in the evolution of furniture design at the Eames Office and investigates the influence of Don Albinson, who was Charles Eames\u2019s primary designer and technician from the mid-1940s to 1960.<\/p>\n

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The Story of Eames Furniture celebrates Charles Eames\u2019s vanguard cultural achievement of giving modern society the opportunity of materializing its identity through furniture design that, even today, still tops bestseller lists and has not lost any of its original elegance, timelessness, freshness, and quality.<\/p>\n

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The Story of Eames Furniture was written and designed by Marilyn Neuhart together with her husband John Neuhart. Both worked personally with Charles and Ray Eames at the Eames Office in various capacities starting in the 1950s. More familiar with the material and protagonists than almost any other, Marilyn Neuhart spent more than 15 years compiling the stories, images, and recollections featured in this book.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO:\u00a0BEST 5 FRENCH MAGAZINES<\/a><\/p>\n

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Best Interior Design Books: The Story of Eames Furniture Now available again, this lavish publication tells The story of Eames furniture in \u00adunparalleled detail on 800 pages with more than 2,500 images. SEE ALSO:\u00a0HOW TO DECORATE A BIG LIVING ROOM WITH BRASS TABLES In this unique publication, Marilyn and John Neuhart tell the story, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":33677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704],"tags":[7648,8085,440,8087,8086,7916],"class_list":["post-33667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design2","tag-best-furniture","tag-best-interior-design-books-the-story-of-eames-furniture","tag-design-books","tag-design-history","tag-eames-furniture","tag-interior-design-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}