Narrative light (1950)

Friday, November 07, 2014

Narrative light (1950)

Probably the beginning of contemporary interior light design.

Interior views show living room’s 17-foot-high ceiling, unadorned steel-truss construction, to which Charles and Ray Eames clamp lamps for varied lighting effects: for the first time in 20th century, the light re-finds a “narrative” value that had lost.
Ph: Courtesy Peter Stackpole -Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images (1950).

Eamesiana is a project by Andrea Terranova and Raffaela Cardia, italian trends scouts on contemporary design.

"The Eameses created the future we're still living"

metropolismag.com

Charles Eames (1907–78) and Ray Eames (1912–88) gave shape to America's twentieth century. Their lives and work represented the US's defining movements: the West Coast's coming-of-age, the economy's shift from making goods to producing information, and the global expansion of American culture. The Eameses embraced the era's visionary concept of modern design as an agent of social change, elevating it to a national agenda. Their evolution from furniture designers to cultural ambassadors demonstrated their boundless talents and the overlap of their interests with those of their country. In a rare era of shared objectives, the Eameses partnered with the governments (US, India) and the country's top businesses to lead the charge to modernize postwar America.