News from Milano Salone del Mobile 2015

Friday, June 05, 2015

News from Milano Salone del Mobile 2015

Heath released a series of handcrafted clay tile House Numbers using fonts created by Charles and Ray Eames. Ceramics numbers are created by Heath in collaboration with famed type foundry House Industries. Like all Heath products, the House Numbers are subject to a refreshingly folksy, holistic, and low-impact (Heath’s clay bodies require just one low-temperature firing instead of the normal two, saving precious energy and resources) manufacturing process that has pretty much remained the same since the company was founded in the mid-1940s.

Courtesy: www.heathceramics.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.