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• Collection: Groups of Images (LOTs)

• Title: Photographs of furniture, furniture groupings, and furniture components
• Creator(s): Office of Charles and Ray Eames, designer Office of Charles and Ray Eames, photographer
• Related Names:
     Girard, Alexander , designer
     Herman Miller, Inc.
     Evans Products Company.
• Date Created/Published: 1946-1958.
• Medium: 657 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.
• Summary: Photographs created and used to design, fabricate, document, and advertise furniture. Images show individual pieces of furniture and groupings of furniture in both indoor and outdoor settings, often viewed from overhead. Includes experimental designs for furniture; molded plywood furniture: tables (dining, folding, and coffee), chairs (dining chair with wood legs (DCW), low chair with wood legs (LCW), dining chair with metal legs (DCM), low chair with metal legs (LCM)), and folding screens; wire mesh chairs, plastic armchairs and side chairs, and cast aluminum chairs; Eames storage unit (ESU); furniture parts and components, including wire chair bases, and some detail views of individual pieces of furniture, including metal bases designed by Alexander Girard. Also includes views of workshop interior and studio set-ups; a few derivative designs of Eames furniture; and demonstration of ESU shipping cartons designed to be re-used as a playhouse for children. Most photographs feature the furniture; some include Charles Eames, Ray Eames, friends, staff, and children.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html)
  
• Call Number: LOT 13177 (G) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized into 13 LOT subdivisions.
  • Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • Operating as the Molded Plywood Division of the Evans Products Company through 1949, the Eames Office designed and manufactured molded plywood projects. Evans granted Herman Miller the rights to market and distribute the plywood chairs in 1946; After 1949, Herman Miller became the major producer and marketer of Eames furniture.
  • LOT title devised; few photographs have individual captions.
  • Eames office inventory location: Drawer 03.A.09.
  • Corresponding negatives in series LC-E12 and LC-E22.
  • Most of these photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, or other Eames Office staff members.
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames located in Venice, Los Angeles, California.
  • Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • Gift; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).
• Subjects:
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames--People--1940-1960.
  • Aluminum group (Eames furniture)--1940-1960.
  • Eames chairs--1940-1960.
  • Eames dining chair metal--1940-1960.
  • Eames dining chair wood--1940-1960.
  • Eames furniture--1940-1960.
  • Eames low chair metal--1940-1960.
  • Eames low chair wood--1940-1960.
  • Eames molded plywood folding screen--1940-1960.
  • Eames plastic armchair--1940-1960.
  • Eames plastic side chair--1940-1960.
  • Eames molded plywood dining tables--1940-1960.
  • Eames plywood folding tables--1940-1960.
  • Eames storage units (Furniture)--1940-1960.
  • Eames wire mesh chair--1940-1960.
  • Children's playhouses--1940-1960.
  • Coffee tables--1940-1960.
  • Dining tables--1940-1960.
  • Furniture industry--California--Los Angeles--1940-1960.
  • Molded plywood--1940-1960.
• Format:
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1960.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html)
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 13177 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: 657 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.

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• Call Number: LOT 13177 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: 657 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.

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