Memorabilia collection - Exhibition Ephemera - Charles & Ray Eames

Year: 1961-1976
- Availability: Vintage inventory from Eames Office

Context:
Above their role as furniture designers, Charles and Ray were communicators and educators. Museum exhibitions and World’s Fairs were avenues for the Eameses to reach the public masses, teaching about varied subjects like mathematics, technology, design, astronomy, geography, time, and culture. Eames exhibitions were hosted by corporations such as IBM, in locations such as the Museum of Modern Art, and seen by eyes across the globe.

Description:
- "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" Timeline (1976)
- Computer Glossary Poster (1968)
- "Mathematica: a world of numbers and beyond" flyer (1961)
- "Copernicus" flyer. (1972) To celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of Nicholas Copernicus’s birth, the Eames Office designed a traveling exhibition focusing on the famous astronomer’s life, his heliocentric theory, and his relationship to past and future astronomers.
-"Philosophical Gardens" flyer. (1975) The Eames Office painstakingly recreated examples of the two mens’ work, featuring Hooke’s engravings of microscopic organisms and photographs of Hales’s plant experiments. These examples were mounted to latticed gazebos and surrounded by a colorful array of potted flowers. Like most of the Eames Office’s exhibitions, Philosophical Gardens included an interactive component. Visitors had the opportunity to view plant specimens and seedlings under a microscope to gain a better understanding of their structure.
- "Isaac Newton" flyer (1973) Isaac Newton: Physics for a Moving Earth opened in time to celebrate the astronomer’s birth on Christmas in 1642. The exhibition, which presented Newton’s achievements in astronomy and mathematics, completed a year of science-related exhibitions curated by the Eames Office for IBM.
- "A Computer Perspective" flyer
- "Nehru: His Life and His India" (1975) brochure from Washington DC exhibit. Charles and Ray first met Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru when he invited them to travel throughout India—a trip that led the Eameses to document their findings in the 1958 India Report. The Eameses were continuously impressed by the extent of Nehru’s interests and the scope of his vision for the country’s future.
- "Moveable Feasts and Changing Calendars" flyer. (1973) The Eames Office organized Moveable Feasts and Changing Calendars as an exhibition for IBM. The focus of the exhibition was our history’s changeable holidays that do not fall on the same date each year, such as Easter, Rosh Hashanah, Ramadan, and the Chinese New Year. The exhibition explored how people, beginning with primitive societies, have used astronomy to organize their yearly calendars.
- "A Sampler of Isaac Newton's Innovations in Mathematics"

The lot has already been shipped from Los Angeles to storage in Amsterdam. Therefore, customs clearance and shipping timelines will follow our standard process, with no additional delays expected