YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW.
Herman Miller President's Report 1973
Hugh De Pree [President]
Hugh De Pree [President]: YESTERDAY. TODAY. TOMORROW [Herman Miller President's Report 1973]. Zeeland/New York: Herman Miller Furniture Company/ Museum of Modern Art, 1973. Original edition. Embossed white glossy folder containing 3 items: Herman Miller President's Report 1973; signed letter on Herman Miller stationery by Hugh De Pree; and a copy of Arthur Drexler's CHARLES EAMES. FURNITURE FROM THE DESIGN COLLECTION. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. First edition. White folder lightly rubbed and worn. Interior contents all fine.
Hugh De Pree [President]: HERMAN MILLER PRESIDENT'S REPORT 1973. Zeeland: Herman Miller Furniture Company, 1973. Original edition. 16-panel foldout printed in 2-colors outlining the financial health of the Herman Miller Furniture Company in 1973.
Hugh De Pree [President]: SIGNED LETTER. Zeeland: Herman Miller Furniture Company, May 1974. Form letter on Herman Miller letterhead addressed to Designers/Specifiers of Herman Miller Furniture Products.
Arthur Drexler's CHARLES EAMES. FURNITURE FROM THE DESIGN COLLECTION. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. First edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and stitched photo illustrated thick wrappers. 56 pp. 89 89 black and white illustrations and 1 double-page color plate. A fine copy. 7.5 x 10 softcover book with 56 pages and 89 black & white illustrations and 1 double-page color plate. This catalog was prepared to accompany an exhibition at MoMA in 1973. Essay by Drexler, the Director of the Department of Architecture and Design. One of the best, early expositions/appreciations of Eames' development of chairs, including prototypes, and one-offs: designs that never made it into production. Includes excellent photography and catalogued text for all of the Eames furniture, from the Saarinen organic Furniture contest collaborations in 1940 to the Aluminum Group, Compact sofas and more. Much material devoted to the beloved plywood designs and prototypes: LCW, DCM, DCW, ETW, screens, etc.
Eventually everything connects -- people, ideas, objects, etc., . . . the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. — Charles Eames
An exceptional snapshot of the collaborative partnership between the Eames Office and the Herman Miller Furniture Company.
. . . everything hangs on something else . . . — Ray Eames
Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames (1907-78 and 1912-88, respectively) were also forerunners in the fields of architecture, industrial design, photography, and film. This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to their work for Herman Miller and films such as the seminal short, Powers of Ten.