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    'Take Your Pleasure Seriously': The Playful Side of Charles and Ray Eames
    Vitra Design Museum's major retrospective, An Eames Celebration, explores the unique and playful collaborative process between this famous design duo.
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    • May 14, 2022 at 10:48 AM
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    Thanks for this, Don ! The Eames's are legends in the Los Angeles design community. I had the pleasure of growing up in a house full of Eames furniture. While enjoying a museum exhibit on the Case Study houses a couple of decades ago, I was surprised to discover that an old family friend was the architect who stamped the drawings for their iconic house in the Pacific Palisades. Their old studio in Venice was something of a landmark, although I'm not aware of its current state.

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    LOL "Take your pleasure seriously" is right up there with "Pleasure is not a four letter word" for my never-to-be-written book ^^

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    If you don't get it written it's only because you didn't spend enough time in "Sunday School" to motivate yourself! ;)

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    "Pleasure is not a four letter word"

    Then it must be a three letter word! ;)

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    "Pleasure is not a four letter word"

    Then it must be a three letter word! ;)

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