I am reading currently a book by Eames Demetrios, the grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, entitled An Eames Primer. I do actually have an Eames chair...and I have that knock off-Saarinen table and chairs which are echos of Eames as well....my heart is being strangely warmed as I have begun this book. I think, somewhere in my childhood, someone must have talked to me, or shown me, an Eames film, or my sister, in college and working for the Sociology department at Southern Illinois University and also an early elementary education student, must have somehow interpreted some of this to me, somehow. Anyway, on each page of this book, I find my heart resonating in its post modern leanings to find beauty and pleasure and form following function and wanting to know if anybody knows of anyone who has ever drawn on the Eames' design philosophy when doing theology??? Please tell me there is someone...I start to feel a little strange and lonely about this ... and in fact moved to tears with the truth of it all. It is very strange and wonderful and I have a feeling someone out there might have a inkling of what I am trying to say....:-)
2 comments:
Susan,
I know nothing about the chairs, but your blog is fun to read - and informative. Sounds like the time away is going well?
Susan,
Just getting around to reading this. I've been thinking around parallel lines about 'space' and 'beauty' and 'form' and 'function.'
I've been calling it a Theology of Space -- it seems to be something us Westerners avoid (like the plague.)
Oh and I'm designing a Eames - Heywood-Hakefield room for my "forever" house (if a Methodist minister can have such...) The simplicity and fluidity of the design, the colors -- they are tranquil but also oddly stimulating. I can trace the lines for hours with my eyes.
So I know what you mean.
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