Timeless design partnership of Charles and Ray Eames
Valentine s Vintage View: We celebrate the romance and creative expressions of the renowned design duo
Charles and Ray Eames in the 1970s. Picture: vitra.com
Sun, 14 Feb, 2021 - 09:00
Kya deLongchamps
Bobbing on a battered aluminium group chair that collides rudely with this knee-hole desk, I’m heady just writing about the romance and creative expressions of Charles and Ray Eames. As my teen puts it while perusing a photograph of the pair “relationship goals”.
If it was all just cynical, newspaper puff tailoring the cream cheese smiles of this design duo in each other’s arms I never, ever want to know.
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Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism Into the Abstract runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
By Jorge S. Arango
Kerry Ryan McFate/Courtesy of Dowling Walsh Gallery
With the exception of Kenneth Noland, Dowling Walsh’s current show, “In the Abstract” (through Feb. 27), concentrates on Abstract Expressionists who might not be household names. Yet the territory their work inhabits is, by turns, electrifying and sublime.
IF YOU GO
WHEN: Through Feb. 27
ADMISSION: Free
INFO: (207) 596-0084, dowlingwalsh.com
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