Eames house of cards

Images used on the deck of Eames cards, which interlock and stack to build a stable "house of cards", posted 9.29.2010. www.theobsessiveimagist.com

Charles Eames, Ray Eames. House of Cards (giant size). 1954. Tigrett Enterprises, Chicago, IL. Plastic coated slotted cards. Box: 11 1/2 × 8 × 1 3/8" (29.2 × 20.3 × 3.5 cm) Component: 11 × 7" (27.9 × 17.8 cm). Purchase. 419.1955. Architecture & Design

View [GIANT HOUSE OF CARDS] (1953) By Eames Ray; cardboard; Each 11x7 inches 28x19 3/4 cm.; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

The Eames Office produced 5 different sets of the House of Cards. The small house of cards is the original, made in 1952.The images are of what Eameses called “good stuff “, chosen to celebrate “familiar and nostalgic objects from the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.” The six slots on each card enable the player to interlock the cards so as to build structures of myriad shapes and sizes. There was also a Giant House of Cards (1953), a Computer House of Cards (1970) and Newton House…

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Additional Information The Picture Deck that today we call The Small House of Cards was the second deck made. The...Read More

Vintage #Eames House of Cards

Do you like building toys? What about clean design? Charles and Ray Eames celebrated the beauty in everyday objects, and you can too with these interlocking cards.

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