The Eames House
Charles and Ray Eames lived what they expounded - in particular, in Case Study House #8, the Eames' personal dwelling for much of their lives. Click the link or on this great pic for a comprehensive look at the home of MCM's greatest designer-duo from the Library of Congress.
UPDATE: Here is the official Eames Office site, maintained by the Eames family: Eames Gallery. The family still owns and uses the house, but permits interior tours on one day a year only. Check here for further details.
Comments
What I love about the Eames house is the clutter - it's such a rebuke to the superminimalist aesthetic that usually tries to sell MCM interiors in magazines and books. The Eames house definitely looked lived in, not like a furniture showroom or a "styled" home ready for a photo shoot.
Posted by: rick mcginnis | October 19, 2007 05:47 AM
Rick, one of the things that attracted me to MCM is that you can set it up without clutter and it looks fine. I'm one of those folks that clutter makes crazy. I realize I'm in a minority - and obviously, Eames was in the majority. I had to laugh at a comment made by some self-anointed style maven at another site - that my taste was questionable because I had Asian tsotskes on my fireplace mantel. The Eames, with far more taste than this guy will ever know, had a home filled with almost nothing but tsotskes - including a lot of Asian ones.
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October 19, 2007 06:46 AM