Also my mother and my older siblings came out to spend the summer… so all these things happened around the same time and so Charles and Ray at that point… Herman Miller moved out of the Abbot Kinney space because they didn’t really need such a small factory any more, and the Eames office took over the whole building and all the work happened down there from that point on: So that’s why, when you look at pictures of the Eames House from 1960, it basically looks like, well not today, because we’re still moving things back in, but it looks like it did for the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, 2000s and 2010s, whereas if you look at pictures from the Fifties that’s where all the different versions, where you see the paintings hanging and stuff like that, and the way I would put it is that I feel like at that point the creative centre of gravity shifted from being between 901 and the Eames House to being entirely 901 – that’s where the creative centre of gravity was. And then here was where they slept and they stayed and the studio became kind of another extension of the living space. If all five of the grandkids came, we would stay over there; if just one of us came we would stay upstairs with Charles and Ray, so the use of it changed and so this is in answer to your question in terms of what was done up here. So the way I look at it is, that if you look at the work that Charles and Ray did, all the different media that they explored, one of the things that’s very interesting is that, in every case, Charles and Ray explored that media first on their own, the two of them, and then, once they understood it or had some feeling and comfort with it, then they brought in the whole staff. And so that’s why film-making up here… you know, they edited the Blacktop film up here, they did Communications Primer up here, all films which are relatively simple to shoot and then, by the time they get to more complicated productions like Information Machine or the animations or... many of the other films, and then they do need a full-on crew, then they have a deep understanding of that media and material. sus películas, hicieron algunas fotografías... Así que se puede decir que, desde 1949 hasta el 1958, allí es donde hicieron la mayor parte de su producción filmográfica y entonces, en 1958, algo pasó. En 1958 hicieron su primer gran proyecto para IBM y vieron que necesitaban más espacio que el que había en el local 901. Se trataba de un proyecto importante, demasiado grande para ese local. Coincidió también con que mi madre y mis hermanos mayores vinieron a pasar las vacaciones… Estos factores se juntaron con el que Herman Miller se trasladara de Abbot Kinney porque la fábrica se le quedaba pequeña, así que el estudio Eames acabó ocupando todo el edificio. Por eso, cuando si nos fijamos en las fotos de la casa Eames de los 50, se ven cuadros colgados y cosas por estilo y, yo, entiendo que es porque el centro de creación pasó de estar entre la Casa Eames y 901 a estar completamente en 901. La casa Eames fue donde dormían y el estudio de convirtió en una extensión de su espacio vital. Cuando los 5 nietos íbamos a visitarlos, dormíamos allí. Si sólo iba uno, dormía con ellos en el altillo de la casa. Supongo que así te contesto a la pregunta de qué se hacía allí. t18 158 Izquierda y derecha / Left and right side: Detalles de las carpinterias de la casa Eames. Details of the Eames house carpentry.
