The Architect and the Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames

FAIN: TR-50158-10

Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710-2597)
Bill Jersey (Project Director: August 2009 to February 2019)

Production of a 90-minute television documentary on designers Charles and Ray Eames.

The Architect and The Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames is a documentary for PBS American Masters. This biographical film will portray the lives and work of the Eameses while capturing their influence on significant events and movements in American life -- from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer.

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The Architect and the Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: The Architect and the Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames
Writer: Jason Cohn
Director: Bill Jersey
Director: Jason Cohn
Producer: Bill Jersey
Producer: Jason Cohn
Abstract: The husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence of significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, EAMES: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
Year: 2011
Format: DVD

Prizes

George Foster Peabody Award
Date: 4/3/2012
Organization: University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications
Abstract: This fascinating and visually inventive biography demonstrates that the mid-century ' Modern" furniture for which the Eamses are best remembered represents merely a fraction of their ingenious and influential design work.

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