Eames: The Architect & The Painter
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00:30,263 -- 00:00:33,198CHARLES EAMES:
An artist isa title that you earn.
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00:33,266 -- 00:00:36,758And it's a little embarrassing
to hear
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00:36,836 -- 00:00:38,394people refer to themselves
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00:38,471 -- 00:00:39,699as artists.
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00:39,773 -- 00:00:42,606It's like referring to
themselves as a genius.
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00:45,645 -- 00:00:49,979MAN:
This was a man who wasa Merlin of curiosity.
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00:50,050 -- 00:00:52,041He was driven by his curiosity.
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00:54,854 -- 00:00:56,947MAN:
We weren't surequite what he was.
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00:57,023 -- 00:00:58,217Was he an architect?
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00:58,291 -- 00:00:59,383Was he a designer?
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00:59,459 -- 00:01:00,619Was he a filmmaker?
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01:00,693 -- 00:01:02,820But what he was, obviously,
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01:02,896 -- 00:01:04,864was something
we all wanted to be.
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01:06,800 -- 00:01:09,030RAY EAMES:
I had been trainedas a painter,
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01:09,102 -- 00:01:12,799but when we were working
on furniture,
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01:12,872 -- 00:01:14,703and again in film,
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01:14,774 -- 00:01:18,210painting in any way,
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01:18,278 -- 00:01:20,303because it was
just another form.
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01:20,380 -- 00:01:24,009WOMAN:
She made paintings out ofwhat she was surrounded by.
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01:24,084 -- 00:01:27,918Everything she touched, she
turned into something magical.
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01:27,987 -- 00:01:30,956MAN:
Everything that they didin design, she saw as
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01:31,024 -- 00:01:32,582an extension of her painting.
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01:32,659 -- 00:01:34,889And everything they did in
design, he saw as an extension
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01:34,961 -- 00:01:36,929of his architecture.
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01:36,996 -- 00:01:39,760painter and architect,
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01:39,833 -- 00:01:41,494they weren't job descriptions.
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01:41,568 -- 00:01:42,967They were ways of looking
at the world.
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01:43,036 -- 00:01:46,233WOMAN:
They wereintroducing people
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01:46,306 -- 00:01:49,400to look at the world
differently.
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01:49,476 -- 00:01:52,673Life was fun, was work, was fun,
was life.
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01:52,745 -- 00:01:56,545it was childlike behavior,
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01:56,616 -- 00:01:58,345but what's wrong with that?
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01:58,418 -- 00:02:01,717The Eameses have put
all this joy back in life.
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02:01,788 -- 00:02:03,619You know that modernism,
let's face it,
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02:03,690 -- 00:02:06,716was getting boring.
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02:06,793 -- 00:02:09,261MAN:
Had they just designedthe furniture,
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02:09,329 -- 00:02:11,229they'd be in the pantheon.
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02:11,297 -- 00:02:15,199It's the multifaceted nature
of the career
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02:15,268 -- 00:02:18,669that is extraordinary.
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02:18,738 -- 00:02:22,469They give shape to America's
20th century.
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02:50,803 -- 00:02:54,000MAN:
I came froman architectural office
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02:54,073 -- 00:02:57,941where there were individual
tables with a conference room,
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02:58,011 -- 00:03:00,445and there was carpet
on the floor.
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03:00,513 -- 00:03:01,673There were lights.
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03:01,748 -- 00:03:03,909We had drafting tables,
and all the equipment
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03:03,983 -- 00:03:06,076that you needed,
et cetera, et cetera.
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03:06,152 -- 00:03:08,347I walk into Eames Office,
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03:08,421 -- 00:03:10,355and it was like walking
into a circus.
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03:12,792 -- 00:03:17,661WOMAN:
I walked in the door, andof course I immediately thought,
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03:17,730 -- 00:03:20,426"Got any jobs here?"
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03:20,500 -- 00:03:26,461MAN:
I'm just totally blown awayby the patina on every surface
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03:26,539 -- 00:03:29,531of graphics, and there were
models everywhere,
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03:29,609 -- 00:03:31,099and there was just stuff.
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03:31,177 -- 00:03:32,542I was just overwhelmed.
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03:32,612 -- 00:03:36,776MAN:
I saw this incredibleapparition
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03:36,849 -- 00:03:39,215of animation stands
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03:39,285 -- 00:03:41,776and photographs
spread out on tables.
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03:41,854 -- 00:03:44,322Models being lit
for photography,
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03:44,390 -- 00:03:45,755a screening room,
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03:45,825 -- 00:03:47,725and a wonderful wood shop.
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03:47,794 -- 00:03:49,591Salt water tanks.
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03:49,662 -- 00:03:53,428WOMAN:
There were Eames chairswith Steinberg drawings on them.
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03:53,499 -- 00:03:57,094Every kind of visual treat
you can imagine.
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03:57,170 -- 00:03:59,968And I thought, "I've come
to work in Disneyland."
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04:02,141 -- 00:04:04,109ASHBY:
If you had takenthe roof off of it,
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04:04,177 -- 00:04:05,940you would see that place
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04:06,012 -- 00:04:07,502changing constantly.
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04:07,580 -- 00:04:10,014So we'd just go around
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04:10,083 -- 00:04:12,574and take everything
out of the middle
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04:12,652 -- 00:04:14,813of the studio,
to put up a movie set
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04:14,887 -- 00:04:17,685to take pictures tomorrow,
and then the next day,
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04:17,757 -- 00:04:20,692you'd take out all the movie set
and put the tables all back up,
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04:20,760 -- 00:04:22,455and everybody's
back at work again.
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04:24,664 -- 00:04:26,427WOMAN:
It was very informal.75
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