Last night, Smart Furniture studio hosted
The Gifted Eye of Charles Eames, a traveling exhibition of Charles Eames’ personal photography, published by the Eames Office and commissioned by Herman Miller to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. We had a great turn out, many people showed up from Chattanooga and surrounding areas, even some from outside Tennessee. We were honored to have Herman Miller's Senior Retail Sales Manager, Lisa Hubbs fly down for the event as well. We started the evening off with a question and answer session with
Eames and Smart Furniture's Director of Special Accounts, Karen Liwanpo. We
live streamed the interview, as well as documented it on video. We will be blogging that soon.
The event opened up with wine and hors d'oeuvres, art, and good times. Eames shared a slide show presentation of art by his grandfather, Charles, and shared a few fond memories of his grandparents.
Thanks to Eames Demetrios, Charles Eames' gifted eye, Smart Furniture, Greenlife, and all who came out. We had a great time!
We think of Charles Eames as a great designer but an exhibition that opened last night shows us another side to this talented man - that of photographer. Hosted by Smart Furniture in their Chattanooga, TN showroom a show of 100 photographs by Charles runs until March 4.
It was a rather cold evening last night but over 200 design enthusiasts showed up to hear Eames Demetrios talk about Charles and Ray’s design philosophy and enjoy the images. Many of the shots, which cover not just Charles’ work but also his travels and life with Ray, had never been exhibited before. I’m going to see if I can get a slideshow together of at least 20 of the images to post here. But for the moment I can tantalize you with pics of the show before the guests arrived!
