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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, California, United States)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1945-1949 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorEames, Charlesen_US
dc.creatorEames, Rayen_US
dc.date1945-1949en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-19T19:03:26Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T19:03:26Z
dc.date.issued1945-1949en_US
dc.identifier191430en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1325en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/98710
dc.descriptionWest studio façade, from southwest; In 1945 they collaborated with Eero Saarinen and Edgardo Contini on two projected case study houses (nos 8 and 9) for the magazine Arts and Architecture. Case Study House no. 9, which was intended for John Entenza, the editor and publisher of the magazine, was a single-level dwelling of steel and stucco and was built (1947-1949), essentially as proposed in its first design, at 205 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, CA. Case Study House no. 8, which was to be the Eames's house, was originally conceived as two steel-framed boxes raised above the site on steel legs. The design was substantially changed, however, and the house was built at ground-level, with two-storey living and studio sections separated by an open atrium . It is a typical Eames product, light in appearance and suggesting a tie to the historical (Japanese architecture) and to the modern. The new siting of the house at 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, set it into the hillside, and through its glass walls the interior could become fully a part of the surrounding eucalyptus grove and take in the view beyond of the Pacific Ocean. The playfulness of the house was reinforced by wall panels of bright colours, panels containing illusionistic photo-murals and by the presence of the Eames's collection of toys and folk art. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/7/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumglass; wood; plaster; steel; pre-fabricated panels and windowsen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdwellingen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectInternational Style (modern European architecture style)en_US
dc.titleCase Study House no. 8en_US
dc.title.alternativeCharles and Ray Eames Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-EC-EH-A3en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayCharles Eames (American architect, 1907-1978); Ray Eames (American architect, 1916-1988)en_US


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