The World of Charles and Ray Eames
Complex and
difficult exhibition at the Barbican looking at the life and work of Charles
and Ray Eames.
More difficult, although interesting, were the sections on their work to get ideas across such as their displays for the IBM Pavilion at the World Fair in 1964. We are so used to multi-screen delivery of information now that this did not feel innovative but I guess this is the first example of a more imaginative way of putting forward information. Odd that something that was about innovate ways of showing information became rather dry in the telling here.
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I admit I came to
this show with very little knowledge of the Eames’s. I knew about the chair
designs but that was it and I loved the section on the development of the
different chairs. I hadn’t realised the original techniques were developed
during the Second World War for glider parts and leg splints! I loved the
displays of chairs with many rare and unique examples.
I hadn’t realised
they had also designed house and there were good sections on the two houses
they designed for Art and Architecture Magazine, one for themselves and one for
the editor. There were nice scale models and phots of both houses.
More difficult, although interesting, were the sections on their work to get ideas across such as their displays for the IBM Pavilion at the World Fair in 1964. We are so used to multi-screen delivery of information now that this did not feel innovative but I guess this is the first example of a more imaginative way of putting forward information. Odd that something that was about innovate ways of showing information became rather dry in the telling here.
Closes 14
February 2016.
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