As part of a celebration of our release of the Eames Century Modern font collection, House Industries will be drawing three names to join us for this exclusive look into the inner sanctum of one of 20th century’s greatest design teams. Sitting high atop the Pacific Palisades and overlooking Santa Monica and the Pacific Ocean, the Eames House was built in 1949 as number 8 in the series of Case Study Houses and is still recognized as a revolutionary use of space and materials. Interior tours of the Eames house and studio are normally only available to members of the Eames foundation.
This exclusive tour will be hosted by Eames Demetrios and Lucia Atwood, grandson and granddaughter of Charles and Ray Eames. House staff members will be present but don’t pay attention to them. Listen to the tour guide.
Date: March 11, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Eames House. Pacific Palisades, CA
If you wish to participate in this drawing, please follow the link below, fill our catalog form and type the words EAMES HOUSE into the COMMENTS box.
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The drawing will take place on Friday, February 19, 2010 and will notify the winners no later than February 23, 2010. As much as we would like to pay for travel costs, winners must figure out how to make their own way to the Eames House. We will supply detailed instructions to all drawing winners.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on February 2, 2010
Rose gold Agent Provocateur pendent featuring the corset AP logo we helped sort out for them.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 29, 2010
David Dodde pulling a few metallic silver Valentype blocks. Only a few days left before these screens are destroyed…
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 24, 2010
The Lecture is open to the public and FREE! Perfect excuse to leave work early on Friday…
Andy Cruz of House Industries
January 22, 2010
Savannah of College of Art and Design
Alexander Hall
668 Indian Street
Savannah Georgia
Lecture begins at 3:00 PM
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 20, 2010
After years of waiting to introduce my son to the romance of pedaling the open road, the height line on the kitchen wall reached a point where I could maybe take him along on my Sunday morning four-hour odyssey. I’m not quite ready to let him loose on his own wheels among the escaladeous free-texting latte slurping denizens of our subrural byways, so some diligent craigslist trolling found a well-preserved 80s era Santana Tandem for less money than a year of swim team dues. What a finely-tuned sapphire of a machine!
Does the flawless blue metallic paint appeal to my rebellious nature as I know it will offend Andy Cruz’s sensibilities with his intense dislike and fanatical avoidance of anything with a cerulean tint?
Or is it the lettering that reminds me of my first job laying out newsletters in Pagemaker 1.0 on a Macintosh SE with two floppy drives while enjoying the volatile organic compound-induced euphoria of rubber cementing down headlines from the local type house so as to not limit my layouts to that era’s anemic digital offerings?
Or the deliciously decayed brown rubber from a cornucopia of component manufacturers, that, despite its cracks, still affords excellent padding and grip?
Or maybe its the comfort of knowing that if one of the 96 spokes blow out, there are two spares that have been ingeniously mounted to protect the rear chainstay.
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Posted by Rich Roat on January 20, 2010
Valentype blocks are ready to hang or just hangout on your favorite surface area. Your choice of any character in red or metallic silver on a solid maple slab.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 15, 2010
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 8, 2010
Offset ink coverage issues got the best of me today. I wanted the 59 on the back of our new lopes printed in one pass but that didn’t happen. All I got was this nice unwashed copper 59 ink blanket as a souvenir.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 6, 2010
A few newsprint signatures from the new catalog.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 4, 2010
As most entertainers know, you never “really” get around to repairs until you have company. David Dodde stayed with us a few days over the holiday break and I knew he’d call me out on a big hole that I never fixed on our back door. The previous owners of our home had some crazy deadbolt rig that they must have removed and “patched” using the foil cap from a wine bottle. I’m no better…I blew off the repair until last Friday. As I scrambled the day before David and Jen rolled up the driveway, I remembered a thin maple Girard Slab exit arrow we prototyped a few years ago that was just waiting to be glued over the hole.
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Posted by Andy Cruz on January 2, 2010
