While Bernice Kaiser is not a name well known‚ Eames is certainly a name that holds an irreplaceable position in postwar American design‚ and according to some‚ Ray and Charles Eames could even be the most important American designers of the twentieth century. From their bent plywood chair of 1946‚ to their short films‚ the Eames were a partnership that engineered innovation across the entire design spectrum. Their more than 80 short films brought awards at film festivals in the United States‚ Europe
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winding bourgeois road. Walk to the end of an unsuspecting alleyway‚ past all the gated post-modern mansions that seem to each exist in their own worlds behind lines of lush green foliage and stark white concrete walls. At the end of the road is The Eames House‚ Case Study House #8—the archetypal symbol of post-modernism. The moment you walk onto the grounds of the house‚ the world changes—removed from the bustling traffic of Pacific Coast Highway‚ away from the beachgoers indulging in the California
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D Journal of Literature and Art Studies‚ ISSN 2159-5836 February 2012‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 2‚ 323-328 DAVID PUBLISHING Idiosyncratic Differences Between the Eames House and the Vanna Venturi House: A Case Study Kyuho Ahn University of Oregon‚ Oregon‚ USA In architectural fields‚ it is often unclear where to draw the line between Modernism and Postmodernism that often represent political debates between the ideology of orthodox modernity and the anti-ideology movement against Modernism as a social
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Inspired by the design of the Eiffel tower and the rise of the new material‚ plastic‚ Charles and Ray Eames designed the high performance Eiffel chair that topped all limits in the design world. The Eiffel chairs were originally designed in metal in 1948 as an entry in The Museum of Modern Art’s International Design Competition‚ but the modern chairs caught wide attention and then were recreated for the public. Not only do the chairs look beautiful and vibrant but they are also technologically
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label historical behaviors related to Herman Miller’s products and markets into product development or market development . In the 1950s ‚ Herman Miller has introduced a number of new furniture designs‚ including those by Alexander Girard ‚ Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson . Moreover‚ in the 1950s ‚ Herman Miller began its first overseas expansion ‚
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Case Analysis Herman Miller: The Invention and Renewal of an Iconic Manufacturer GM 599 Strategic Management in Global Environment Professor: Ernesto Escobedo Shehzad Karedia Herman Miller Inc started back in 1905‚ as a furniture company. The Star Furniture Company was a manufacturer of traditional-style bedroom suites in Zeeland‚ Michigan. It changed its name to Michigan Star Furniture Company‚ in 1909. Dirk Jan De Pree was hired as a clerk
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them. The Eameses started making their molded plywood timber furniture a good example of this is the LCM chair it was an easily mass produced low cost item of furniture‚ and this form of mass production was one of the areas of design that Charles and Ray Eames focused on. 1950-1959 After World War II‚ the public as a whole looked to warmer and softer furniture‚ organic forms‚ warmer products like timber and upholstered chairs. They
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workforce o Development and movement from within the company o Gifted design teams o Commitment to doing what was right (rather than what was best) ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS Stopped using two species of trees for their rosewood signature piece "Eames chair" when it was discovered they came from vunerable rain forests 90% cut in trash hauled to landfills Built $11 million waste-to-energy heating and cooling plant resulting in $750‚000 annual savings in fuel and landfill costs Ceased use
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Herman Miller Inc in 2012 Frank Shipper Salisbury University Steven B. Adams Salisbury University Karen Manz Author and Researcher Charles C. Manz University of Massachusetts Herman Miller was widely recognized as the leader in the office furniture industry and had built a reputation for innovation in products and processes since D. J. De Pree became president over 90 years ago. Herman Miller was one of only four companies and the only non-high-technology enterprise named to Fortune’s "Most Admired
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Max Gomez September 25‚ 2013 Public Speaking‚ SPC 2608 Professor Grimaldo Ray “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs‚ my kidneys‚ my liver‚ my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” Ray said. Ray Charles Robinson was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues‚ gospel‚ and blues styles. He was blind. He started to lose his sight
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