News: Milan Design Week: tomes at Taschen’s new outpost in the corso Magenta district (Thursday, April 16)

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

News: Milan Design Week: tomes at Taschen’s new outpost in the corso Magenta district (Thursday, April 16)

The Taschen store will open today with an exhibition by Julius Shulman. He captured Los Angeles and its surroundings in the middle of the 20th century and photographed virtually every important mid-century modernist architect’s work, including the home of Charles and Ray Eames.

His pictures have such a strong signature and really capture the atmosphere of his subject’s homes. Some of his prints will be for sale in-store, too.

On Thursday, April 16, I plan to celebrate its official unveiling with a cocktail party hosted by Marc Newson.

Taschen, Via Meravagli, 17
Courtesy taschen.com

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.