Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. This is the first film to be made about them since their deaths.and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and sometimes tortured love for one another. It brings to light a cache of archival material - visually stunning films, love letters, photographs and artifacts produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles and Ray with their talented staff during the hypercreative forty-year epoch of the Eames Office. Interviews with family members and design historians guide the viewer on an intimate tour of the Eames era, while junior designers who were swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery," as they called it, flesh out a fascinatingly complex blueprint of this husband-and-wife powerhouse.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2011
Subjects: Design
Keywords: designers; furniture design; Eames, Charles and Ray

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Notes: First Run is a well-established US distributor specialising in independent films and is especially strong on documentaries. In addition to a home video store it has an educational/non-theatrical division supplying titles to libraries and educational institutions. The purchase of these titles includes non-theatrical Public Performance Rights. The educational catalogue is browsable by title or subject.

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