“Saving Orphan Films”: Eames Screening at Wexner Center

Today: See the Eames film Day of the Dead and other “orphan films” at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio). Introduction by Jeff Lambert, executive director of the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Saving “Orphan” Films is part of the third-annual film festival, Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration.
Established in 1997, the National Film Preservation Foundation was formed by Congress to help save America’s film heritage. In this program, the foundation’s Jeff Lambert introduces a program of “orphan films”—works with no corporate owner or copyright holder and at greatest risk of falling through the cracks—whose preservation the NFPF is supporting. The program includes films by Charles and Ray Eames, Owen Land, and Shirley Clarke, among others. (Program approx. 90 mins., 16 & 35mm)

Event Details:
Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio State University, Columbus)

Saturday, February 25, 2017
4:30 pm

Program Lineup:

Fifty Million Years Ago(Service film, 1925; 35mm, silent, tinted)
Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Faces & Fortunes(Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, 1959; 16mm, sound, color)
Print courtesy Chicago Film Archives.

Young Braves(Michael Jacobsohn, 1968, 16mm, sound, b&w)
Print courtesy New York Public Library.

A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, CA

(Owen Land, 1974; 16mm, sound, color)
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

24 Frames Per Second (Shirley Clarke, 1977; 16mm, sound, color)
Print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.

Day of the Dead(Charles and Ray Eames, 1957; 35mm, sound, color)
Preserved by Library of Congress.

Multiple Sidosis(Sid Laverents, 1970; 16mm/35mm, sound, color)
Print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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Charles and Ray Eames, Day of the Dead, 1957

Eames Lecture in Genk, Belgium

Today, in conjunction with the exhibition The World of Charles and Ray Eames, join C-mine for a lecture on the work and legacy of Charles and Ray Eames by Eames Office director, Eames Demetrios.

Eames Demetrios is best known for his work as director of the Eames Office, but he is also the grandson of Charles Eames. He is striving to introduce a younger generation to the legacy of Charles and Ray Eames and ensure that the design duo’s unique work is preserved and shared worldwide. At C-mine, he will speak about the mission of the Eames Office and the many ways that Charles and Ray’s research and projects have left a lasting mark on the design world.
Lecture in collaboration with Architectuurwijzer.

Event Details
Monday, February 20, 2017
8:15 pm
Great hall C-mine Cultural Centre
Language: English

Exhibition & Lecture: € 17 general / € 12 under 26 years
Exhibition only: € 12 general / € 7 under 26 year
Tickets available at C-mine’s welcome desk or online.

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Eames Demetrios, Director of the Eames Office

New Development Threatens the Original Eames-Designed Herman Miller Showroom

The 1949 famous building could be surrounded by a mixed-use hotel, retail, and residential tower.
Developer Jason Illoulian’s Faring Capital (which also owns Norms La Cienega and the Factory nightclub on Robertson) owns the showroom, as well as the adjacent 1931 art deco building (formerly Poliform), former Tommy Hilfiger retail store, and 4-story apartment house. He has plans to use the space to build a mixed-use development. The multi-story project includes a hotel, retail, and approximately 80 residential units, according to West Hollywood associate planner Adrian Gallo. It would only partially preserve the Eames showroom.
“They’re keeping the first half of it intact,” Gallo said of the showroom. “And the back half of it would be the new building.” Adrian Scott Fine, preservation director of the Los Angeles Conservancy, wants to see a more sensitive approach. “I understand that the intent is to preserve the front of the building,” he says. “It’s more than a facadectomy.”
The original showroom interior was modular and designed to show off furniture the way it might look in a home. Charles and Ray Eames designed covers for Arts & Architecture magazine, and their pieces were ubiquitous in the magazine’s Case Study House program.
Representatives for the developer will be sharing more plans last February 9 at a community meeting for neighbors to learn how the project will affect them. Roy Rogers Oldenkamp, president of the West Hollywood Preservation Alliance, is confident the new project will save much of the original building. Oldenkamp relayed a Faring spokesman’s message that the project will “peel back the layers of time to bring the Eames masterwork as close to the original as possible.”
It’s one thing to update the interiors of a neoclassical building when stone and stucco hide everything. Saving a glass façade requires a real master.
We wish that Charles and Ray were still around to take the job.

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Photography by Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Herman Miller showroom designed in 1949 by Charles and Ray Eames

Eames spotting 2017: Sherlock

Martin Freeman (aka John Watson) in "The Lying Detective", Sherlock, season 4, episode 3, 2017.