newly released by house industries are the “eames house blocks”, a highly expensive set of childrens’ blocks based on the famous eames’ work. it is part of a larger collection of objects titled the “eames century modern collection” which includes a beautiful but expensive font.
the eames house, built in 1949, is a symbol of modern architecture. the house served as the studio as well as the home of charles and ray eames. the involvement of the site is one i find interesting:
The first plan of their home, known as the Bridge House, was designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1945. Because it used off-the-shelf parts ordered from catalogues, and the war had caused a shortage in materials delivery, the steel did not arrive until late 1948. By then, Charles and Ray had “fallen in love with the meadow,” in Ray’s words, and felt that the site required a different solution.
Charles and Ray then posed themselves a new problem: How to build a house with maximized volume with the same elements and not destroy the meadow. Using the same off-the-shelf parts, but ordering one extra steel beam, Charles and Ray re-configured the House. It is this design which was built and remains today.
read more at the wikipedia here, and check out the eames foundation page on the history of the house here.
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