June 2012
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“Many people were afraid to sit on them…we were a little bit afraid,...”
– Ray Kaiser Eames, discussing the reaction to the chairs designed by herself and her husband Charles that were exhibited at MOMA in 1946 (possibly something like this). Charles Eames would have turned 105 years old today.
Oral history interview with Ray Eames, 1980 July 28-Aug. 20.
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“They sit for hours on the ‘cafés’ warming their precious behinds, and talk...”
– Frida Kahlo, in a letter to her lover, the photographer Nickolas Muray, expressing her disdain for the members of the art scene in Paris. Much of the letter is too salty to reproduce on a family blog such as this one; in other words, a good read!
Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray,...
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