Suggestion for a Christmas gift

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Suggestion for a Christmas gift

"Fifties House", the first book in House & Garden's 'Decades of Design' series, has gone on sale and what's most surprising is how much of the book's content is fashionable yet again.

Taken from the exclusive archives of "House & Garden" magazine, the book features several Eamesians pieces, room-by-room inspiration and plenty of savvy ideas for everything from colour schemes to small spaces.
In Turin this precious book is sold by Libreria NB Nota Bene, Via Bellezia 12.

"Fifties House" by Catriona Gray with a foreword by Terence Conran, Conran Octopus, £ 30

Via www.octopusbooks.co.uk

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.