The story of Eames Furniture (bk.2)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The story of Eames Furniture (bk.2)
Classmark: Bedford Collection G166
Creator(s): Neuhart, Marilyn; Neuhart, John
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray; Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray; Eames, Charles 1907-1978; Eames, Ray 1912-1988; Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray; Miller, Herman; Eames, Charles
Publisher: Gestalten
Publication city: Berlin
Date(s): 2010
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes (798 pages)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741020
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020013689505181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 783-791) and index.
Book 1. The early years : Introduction -- The Eames Office -- Charles Eames, Ray Eames -- The Eames repertory company : Eero Saarinen; John Entenza ; Norman Bruns ; Griswold Raetze ; Margaret Harris ; Gregory Ain ; Marion Overby ; Harry Bertoia ; Herbert Matter ; Don Albinson ; Charles Kratka ; Frederick Usher II ; Dale Bauer ; Parke Meek ; Deborah Sussman ; Robert Staples ; Peter Pearce ; Gordon Ashby ; Richard Donges ; Sam Passalacqua ; Harlan Moore and E.W. (Johny) Johnson -- Furniture design and development in the Eames Office -- Organic designs in home furnishings competition, 1940-1941 -- Los Angeles, 1941 : Experimental molded plywood chair seat -- The war years, 1942-1946 : Molded plywood splints ; Edward S. Evans ; Molded plywood arm splints ; Molded plywood body litter ; Molded plywood aircraft parts -- Plywood furniture, 1944-1949 : Experimental plywood chairs ; Molded plywood children's furniture ; Molded plywood animals ; Molded plywood tables ; Edward S. Evans, Jr. ; Plywood
case goods ; Museum of Modern Art one-man exhibition ; Radio cabinet enclosures ; Molded plywood screens ; Arts & architecture magazine September 1946.
Book 2. The Herman Miller age : From Evans products to the Herman Miller Furniture Company: in transition : Eames molded plywood chairs; Plywood folding tables -- The Herman Miller Furniture Company: genesis : D.J. De Pree ; Herman Miller Furniture Company ; Gilbert Rohde ; James Eppinger -- The Herman Miller Furniture Company: the Nelson years : George Nelson ; William Propst -- Eames furniture: the Albinson years 1946-1960: Low cost competition and the fiberglass chair : Museum of Modern Art Low Cost Competition ; Irv Green and Sol Fingerhut ; Eames fiberglass arm chairs ; Eames fiberglass side chairs -- Eames furniture: The Albinson years 1948-1960: innovations and standards : Eames storage units ; LTR table ; ETR table ; Wire mesh chair ; Wire sofa ; Alexander Girard ; Hang-It-All ; Sofa compact ; Eames stacking chair ; Lounge chair and ottoman ; Stephens Speakers ; Eames Aluminum Group -- Eames furniture: 1960-1978 : Hugh De Pree ; Vitra ; Time-Life chair ; Eames wooden stools ; La
Fonda Chair ; Robert Blaich ; Eames contract storage ; Eames tandem sling seating ; Eames Tandem shell seating ; Eames school seating ; Segmented base tables ; Intermediate desk chair chaise ; Soft pad group ; Drafting chair ; Two-piece plastic chair ; Two-piece secretarial chair ; Loose cushion arm chair ; Teak and leather sofa ; Max De Pree.
"Tells the tale...of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is."--From container.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G166: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFS/49.
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