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...Charles and Ray Eames for Vitra DSX Hopsack chair in 71 Yellow, £475. Chairs throughout available from conranshop.co.uk Total ellipse of the heart From top: Dior leather Dior Vibe Hobo bag, £2,350....
...Even the chairs used for cutting hair are vintage: Eames, modified with a hydraulic pump....
...While many are familiar with the arts and crafts designer Sam Maloof or Charles and Ray Eames, he says: “The mid-century is where the design legacy in the US begins and ends, right now.”...
...Among the obligatory Eames chairs, Louis Vuitton luggage and Andy Warhol paintings is a small but eye-catching collection of watches and jewellery, representing many of the more recent pieces in the collection...
...Herman Miller has revived the Eames Aluminum Group first designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958 as an indoor-outdoor collection....
...At a harbourside café, typically Portland in its cavernous bare-brick interior, I met up with Jennifer Hutchins, executive director of a City Hall-sponsored body set up in 2008 with a mission to nurture...
...For week two, Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost has picked the young video artist Ciarán Wood, while painter Jennifer Durrant has honoured Katherine Gili, a sculptor now in her sixties whom she...
...Curators Jeannine Falino and Jennifer Scanlan have fitted the first galleries as a succession of seductively furnished rooms. A Bertoia “Bird” lounge chair spreads its wing-like arms in welcome....
...Indeed, Kron’s daughter, Isadora, six, says she enjoys her inherited Eames rocker simply because “it rocks really fast and it’s really old”....
...Walls will be covered with the latest art from local artists such as Jennifer Pastor, Cathy Opie, Charles Ray and Richard Prince. Hot colours: orange, chocolate....
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