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Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs of seating furniture

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Title

  • Photographs of seating furniture

Summary

  • Photographs created and used to design, document, and advertise seating furniture primarily produced during the late 1950s and the 1960s for Herman Miller: aluminum group, Eames contract storage (ECS), Time-Life lobby chair and stool, Time-Life desk chair, La Fonda chair and table, tandem sling seating, tandem shell seating, school seating, intermediate desk chair, the lounge chair and ottoman, soft pad group, loose cushion chair, foam-in-place armchair, and upholstered molded plastic chair. Images show furniture: fabrication and production, including experimental and prototypical furniture, parts, and molds; Herman Miller showrooms (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York) featuring furniture, interior designs created for display of new furniture, and opening receptions. Furniture is displayed indoors in studio shots, outdoors, and in actual settings: at universities (University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Illinois); at Herman Miller Educational Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Herman Miller factory, Zeeland, Michigan; and at airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, California; Boston, Massachusetts, and Chicago, Illinois. LOT also includes images of: Revell toy house; chairs for exhibits at Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York; opening reception for 1973 Eames retrospective at MOMA; images and graphics used in advertising, graphic designs, furniture panels, and catalogs; design drawings for molded plywood and aluminum group furniture; and images used for Herman Miller timeline. Some photographs show Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Eames Office staff, and colleagues at work.

Names

  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, designer
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, photographer
  • Nickel, Richard, -1972, photographer
  • Herman Miller, Inc.

Created / Published

  • 1943-1985, bulk 1960-1975.

Headings

  • -  Office of Charles and Ray Eames--People--1940-1990
  • -  Herman Miller, Inc.--Exhibitions & displays--1940-1990
  • -  Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions & displays--1940-1990
  • -  Aluminum group (Eames furniture)--1940-1990
  • -  Eames chairs--1940-1990
  • -  Eames furniture--1940-1990
  • -  Eames contract storage (Furniture)--1940-1990
  • -  Eames loose cushion armchair--1940-1990
  • -  Eames lounge chair and ottoman--1940-1990
  • -  Eames plastic side chair--1940-1990
  • -  Eames school seating--1940-1990
  • -  Eames tandem sling seating--1940-1990
  • -  Eames tandem shell seating--1940-1990
  • -  La Fonda chairs--1940-1990
  • -  Soft pad group (Eames furniture)--1940-1990
  • -  Time-Life chair--1940-1990
  • -  Time-Life stool--1940-1990
  • -  Furniture industry--California--Los Angeles--1940-1990
  • -  Showrooms--California--Los Angeles--1940-1990
  • -  Showrooms--California--San Francisco--1940-1990
  • -  Showrooms--New York (State)--New York--1940-1990
  • -  Dollhouses--1940-1990
  • -  Molded plywood--1940-1990
  • -  Interior design--1940-1990
  • -  Advertisements--1940-1990
  • -  Graphic design--1940-1990

Format Headings

  • Contact sheets--1940-1990.
  • Design drawings--1940-1990.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1990.

Genre

  • Contact sheets--1940-1990
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1990
  • Design drawings--1940-1990

Notes

  • -  Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • -  LOT title devised; few photographs have individual captions.
  • -  Eames office inventory locations: NB023, NB024, NB025, NB026.
  • -  Corresponding negatives in series LC-E10, LC-E11, LC-E12, LC-E13, and LC-E21.
  • -  Most of these photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, or other Eames Office staff members, including Myron Moskwa and Steve Slocomb. Also includes photographs by Bob Blaich, David Scott Morgan, Richard Nickel, George Scerna, and possibly others.
  • -  Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • -  Gift; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).

Medium

  • 722 contact sheets (9,040 images) : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.
  • 68 photographic prints : b&w and a few color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13190 (G) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98518450

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, and Inc Herman Miller, Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, and Richard Nickel, photographer. Photographs of Seating Furniture. San Francisco Los Angeles California New York, 1943. to 1985, Bulk 1960 to 1975. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98518450/.

APA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, D. & Herman Miller, I., Office Of Charles And Ray Eames & Nickel, R., photographer. (1943) Photographs of Seating Furniture. San Francisco Los Angeles California New York, 1943. to 1985, Bulk 1960 to 1975. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98518450/.

MLA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, and Inc Herman Miller, photographers by Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, and Richard Nickel. Photographs of Seating Furniture. to 1985, Bulk 1960 to 1975. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/98518450/>.