Confessions of an Eames fanboy
I've been toying with when to take my delayed trip to Melbourne, after that deferred trip earlier this year. Early July sounded good, and it just got a bit better.
As part of this year's Melbourne Design Festival, the National Design Centre in Fed Square are hosting an exhibition of the work of Charles and Ray Eames, including a film night showing the Eames' short films.
I'm an Eames fanboy from way back, so let's just say this announcement got my attention. I may have audibly squeeked while reading the list of events.
The Eames-fest also includes a "Chair Camp," which appears to be a chair design workshop. It sounds like it's for students, so I may have to don a beret and pencil moustache to pose as an architecture student and sneak in there.
My one hope is that the touring exhibition includes chairs you can actually sit on. If you've been spared this rant previously, I'll give you the highlights reel: Design is problem solving, ergo a chair is the solution to the problem of needing to sit down. You therefore can't judge the design of a chair without sitting in it (Vitra Design Museum, I'm talking to you).
Uh.
Why do I admit these things in public?
Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 and filed under Chairs, Life.
