“One of something may be beautiful, but can you stand to see 100 in a row?” ~ Charles Eames Quote #95 from 100 Quotes by Charles Eames In the mid 20th century, Charles and Ray Eames thoroughly explored new issues that came along with mass production. Photos (top & bottom) from the archives
Lucia Eames fondly remembers the wonder and delight in the brilliant Gus Arriola’s Gordo which was a favorite comic strip in the local St. Louis newspaper that she read daily with her father, Charles Eames. The comic strip was later included in Charles & Ray Eames’ film, The Fabulous Fifties. In 1970, Arriola explored scale [...]
Photo of LAR (Low Armchair Rod) from the archives “Furniture, and especially chairs, interest me because it is a piece of architecture on the human scale… That’s why architects design furniture – so you can design a piece of architecture you can hold in your hand.“ ~ Charles Eames Quote #50 from 100 Quotes by [...]
Photo: Lucia Eames Scale of the child to the egg: Height of child: 42″ or 106.68cm (100) Length of egg: .8″ or 2 cm (10-1) 1″ = 2.54cm
Over the last month, the beautiful golden blooms of the sunflowers have begun to droop and fade. The heads of the sunflowers (10+2) which have been drying in the sun reveal the tightly packed seeds (10+4) which will be saved for next year.
In the Powers of Ten film, the carbon atom itself is first seen at 10-10 at the outer electron shell and at 10-14 the nucleus is seen. Today we know that inside the atom the quark and the electron are the smallest known particles at 10-18. That’s roughly like if the quark and the electron [...]
A view from above of the picnic set-up from the 1977 production of Powers of Ten. The site of the picnic, a golf course in Florida in the 1968 film, has been moved to a park on Lake Michigan in Chicago. The journey out into the cosmos follows a perpendicular line from the hand of [...]
On the homepage of the website, I have enjoyed scrolling through the different categories like Patterns, to look at the different examples and to think about where else one might see those same forms at different scales. While watching a lot of baseball, it has been fun to guess when the baseball is hit what [...]
First flower delivery for tomorrow’s celebration!