Architecture and furniture designs, 1940-1978.

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Architecture and furniture designs, 1940-1978.

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118 photographs of the architectural drawings and blueprints by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen for two Case Study houses built in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles, California, 1945-49. Ca. 300 color transparencies document furniture designs, many of them prototypes, by the Eames office, 1940-1978.

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Eames, Ray

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Designer; Venice, Calif.; b. 1916; d. 1988. From the description of Ray Eames interviews, 1980 July 28 - Aug. 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437623 Ray Eames (1916-1988) was a designer from Venice, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Eames, 1980 July 28-Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395860 ...

Eames, Charles Chambers

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Charles Eames (1907-1978), architect and designer, and his wife Ray Eames (1912-1988), artist and designer. Ray Eames was born Bernice Alexandra Kaiser. From the description of Papers of Charles and Ray Eames, 1885-1988 (bulk 1965-1988). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072571 Charles Eames, American architect and designer; Eero Saarinen, Finnish-born, American architect and designer. From the description of Architecture and furniture designs, 1940-1978. (Getty R...

Entenza, John, 1903-1984

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Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...