Eames Documentary

i just got an email at work about this documentary on the Eames studio that's coming out at the end of the year. i can't wait to go see it! here's the description from the production company's website ... sounds promising. and the good news is that if it's not showing in a theater near you, it will be on PBS in December!

EAMES: The Architect and The Painter
Theatrical premiere begins in NYC at the IFC Center on November 11, 2011. Coming to Los Angeles' Laemmle Theatres on November 18, 2011. Broadcast premiere on PBS American Masters on Monday, December 19, 2011.
EAMES: The Architect and the Painter is first film about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths and the only film that really endeavors to peer inside their collaboration, their marriage and the “Renaissance studio” they created in a gritty warehouse in Venice, CA.
Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.
Family members and design historians help guide the story, but it is in interviews with the junior designers swept into the “24-7” world of “The Eamery” that a fascinatingly complex picture of this husband and wife creative team really emerges.

kate spade ta da!

i had forgotten i took these pictures ages ago until i was uploading more photos from my camera this morning.... but better late than never, right?

just thought this storefront at kate spade was pretty fabulous. i love how they sometimes carry their window design out onto the sidewalk.... always a good treat for us unfriendly/grumpy new yorkers who walk around looking down all the time...

on that note, i fell in love with this ring i saw on oh joy! the other day and was just looking for a good excuse to post about it.... seeing as how it's from kate spade's holiday collection, i guess now's as good a time as ever!... it reminds me of you, holly!

stichin' pretty

i am in love with the stitching details on these sheets by john robshaw on designsponge today.

design for a living world

this is exactly why i'm going to have to go back to the cooper hewitt sometime soon...

she is actually knitting wool floor tiles out of enormous knitting needles!

also, lots more good design in the new exhibit, design for a living world...

restaurant la corde a linge

restaurant la corde a linge is a spatzle cafe in france that my beautiful did the design and restaurant decor for

i love the pattern of the cloths pins

i neeeeeed this teeeelight

ah - what a cute pendant lamp!! - by jan berstein

love it!

found on my new favorite blog

andrew bird poster

i was doing some gig poster research and came across this one for andrew bird...i love it

helen amy murray

i found this at work today while browsing for materials. 

helen amy murray is a british textile artist who works with leathers, suede, and other great fabrics to create surface relief patterns that are insanely beautiful. she has several designs and has also applied some of her work to some fabulous furniture. i'm obsessed.

here are just some of my favorites. her website has even more great stuff.

stunning patterns.

i mean, the egg chair with peonies? how much better could it get? also, i am quite obsessed with the peacock tub chair.....

alexander girard

house industries presents alexander girard...along with some fun new typefaces there are fun games and t-shirts too

ripples

i'm on a mad search at work today for a bench with a back - what i'm looking for is pretty much impossible to find, but in the process i found this - probably one of the best benches ever. by toyo ito for horm. mmmmm beautiful wood!

scribbler stationery suite

today at lewis we worked on shooting some of the work i had done...here is the stationery suite for the scribbler

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