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Deborah Sussman "Eames Words"

4 February 2012

The much praised exhibit “Eames Words” is currently on view through February 20 2012,  at the A+D museum in Los Angeles. It is a participant in the behemoth program, "Pacific Standard Time, Art in LA 1945–1980". 

Deborah Sussman spearheaded and curated this show, in collaboration with graphic designer Andrew Byrom, and a
team of passionate  designers and fabricators, including former long-term Eames staff members. 

Its concept is based on Charles Eames’ quote, "the uncommon beauty of common things". Its design is deliberately not "as though Charles and Ray would have done it", but instead, presented with 21st century eyes and spirit.

“The onslaught of the county museum show finds a highly focused counterpoint in “Eames Words” at the fledgling Architecture and Design Museum, in a climate-control-free storefront across the street. All but devoid of art, the show succeeds on sheer curatorial imagination. With quotations from the Eameses displayed across walls, a few films and some alluring displays of everyday objects and raw materials, it is like being inside the designers’ heads.”

– Roberta Smith, The New York Times, November 13, 2011

More at:
The New York Times, November 2, 2011

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