Eames' Vibe in Jewelry Designer’s Los Angeles Studio

Architect-turned-designer, Los Angeles based, Elena Howell's jewelry line, TomTom, is marked by impeccably clean lines, deceptively simple silhouettes, and a minimalist approach to luxury. 

It's no surprise that her keen eye extends beyond her collections to inform her interior design aesthetic, and the small studio she keeps in L.A., is as modern and clean as her accessories.
Loved by Jessica Alba, Leandra Medine, Ashley Greene, and Alicia Keys, TomTom's ever-increasing celebrity following is a testament to Elena's clear vision and Type A approach. She runs every aspect of her business, directs all her manufacturing, balances her own books, and imbues her designs with a uniquely accessible and covet-worthy vibe.

Elena Howell says: "I am constantly looking to architecture for design inspiration. I specifically tend to look toward mid-century modernist architects like Charles and Ray Eames for inspiration. I often find myself trying to translate the geometric details, architectural lines and broad gestural movements of their works into my jewelry".

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Ph. courtesy Tom Tom Jewelry

When a Big Design Brand meets Eameses: the Mosa Example

Mosa is a Dutch tile manufacturer established in 1883 by Louis Regout: the scion of a famous Maastricht family of industrialists. Over the course of its more than 130-year history, the company developed into an innovative producer of high-quality products. 

Attention to innovation and design are important values for Mosa: it shows the attention in its own advertising for the historical pieces of Eames, as you see:

Ph. courtesy: mosa.com

Eames Good Design Challenge: New Life for a Classic Chair

KEM Studio, a design studio in Kansas City, Missouri, specializes in architecture and industrial design, has been named the winner of this year’s "Eames Good Design Challenge". 
Sponsored by Herman Miller and the John A. Marshall Company, the contest challenged approximately a dozen architecture and design firms, to “upholster” an Eames molded plastic chair in a way that combined both comfort and style.
For KEM Studio’s winning submission, Jonathon Kemnitzer, co-founder and principal of the firm, and his team took a white Eames chair, which they then drilled holes into and wove in a crisscross pattern using 30 feet of white felt that they purchased online.
To ensure their success, the team used several “throwaway” chairs that were Eames lookalikes and drilled holes into the plastic in various patterns and sizes before settling on their winning design.
“We wanted to take a traditional technique—weaving—and apply it in a modern way,” he says. “Since we’re an industrial-design firm, we approach things differently. [Our final design] is something that’s functional and beautiful at the same time.”

Courtesy: interiordesign.net

Read all at: www.interiordesign.net/articles/12069-kem-studio-wins-eames-good-design-challenge/

Eameses inspire Artist from Latin America Today

An important collaboration between South London Gallery and New York’s Guggenheim Museum brings a major survey of modern and contemporary art from Latin America to South London, which also happens to be home to one of the largest Latin American communities in Europe. The 40-plus artists included in Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today span from veteran figures producing radical work in the 1970s to some of the key artists making work today.
The works run the whole multi-media gamut: spanning drawing, sculpture, mixed media, painting, performance and video.
For example, ideas surrounding what it means to be “Tropical” prevail, as does a vibrant re-interpretation of the strategies of high 20th century Modernism and Conceptualism.
There’s a strong whiff of this in Gabriel Sierra’s re-purposing of Charles and Ray Eames’s iconic "Hang-It-All" wall-mounted coat rack. By bedecking this design classic with fresh grapes, apples and limes, Sierra undermines its pure, geometric aesthetic as well as its original function.

Read all at: www.telegraph.co.uk

Ph. credits: Andy Stagg / Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and South London Gallery