I’ll carpet my stairs with bricks, thank you. #charleston #design (at Charleston, SC)

A website dedicated to Joe Colombo’s “Boby Trolley”, which has been a friend to art conservators for many years. Learn more than you need to about this little gem all in one place.

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Great video about Milton Glaser (via @greg.org).

vimeo.com

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Just One Word … Plastics

Check out this blog post by IMA conservator, Laura Kubick about her recent trip to the Plastics conference in Paris last month.

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sfmoma:

Does Dieter Rams live up to his own immortal design ethos? Yes and no—and that offers all of us lessons to learn.

Read more: Gadi Amit Offers 4 Lessons From Dieter Rams’s Successes, And Failures

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An interesting if not a little bit quirky film from 1972 around the famous interview with Charles Eames for the show Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais de Louvre in 1972.

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Daniel Ostroff talks about the exhibition at the J.F. Chen Gallery.

youtu.be

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penreadygallery:

Timeless interior of Eero Saarinen’s 1954 Irwin Union Bank and Trust building with George Nelson office furniture.

Another submission for my PEN Ready Project from Olympus.

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penreadygallery:

Detail of bank vault door in the former Irwin Union Bank in Columbus, Indiana.

Another submission for my PEN Ready Project from Olympus.

Reading about Eames on Art21’s Blog.

The second part of our interview with Daniel Ostroff about the work and life of Charles and Ray Eames is now up on Art21’s Blog. The interview, conducted with Tricia Gilson, covers a lot of ground, including ideas around patina, preservation, presentation, and exhibition. Along with lots of background info on the new website EamesDesigns.com.

It’s broken up into two posts:

Part I

Part II

Let me know what you think.