The documentary House: After Five Years of Living Explore how the home of the Eames looked in 1955, five years after moving to this house at Christmas in 1949 and once both had reached creative maturity, all while experiencing creating toys and venturing into cinema and photography.
The short documentary was filmed by the same couple, an audiovisual legacy that not only allows to explore the Eames house And the objects that gave him life, but offers a unique vision from the optics of Charles and Ray of his work through cinematographic language.
From a Light and functional steel structure That he got up in less than two days, the Eames started from their experience as furniture designers to shape a house based on prefabricated elements and glass and wood panels, to create a flexible place that only acquires meaning through the experience of living.
The interior is warm, with wooden floor and influence of Japanese culturewith prefabricated windows that allow the entry of light for most of the day with a permanent influence of the natural environment, surrounded by eucalyptus trees that the couple decided to maintain in their original place.
The vegetation also plays an essential role in an intentional absence of too many pieces of furniture, palm trees, palm trees, Monsteras and other plant species They join the organically complex.
Through fast scenes set with an original music by Elmer Bernstein, Eames captured textures, edges, materials, vegetation, design parts and the games of lights and shadows that shaped the home in which they inhabited their death
The solutions as functional as aesthetics raised by the couple for the Eames house became a Referent of design with prefabricated materials and enriched the modern style from an American perspective. The designers were based on Japanese influence, abstract expressionism and light to realize their most ambitious project.
Also known as Case Study House No. 8 for participating in the magazine's construction program Arts & Architecture That he sought to stimulate solutions for prefabricated housing after World War II, the Eames house is an authentic icon of modern architecture in the United States that is still standing and was recently restored after an initiative of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Eames Foundation to return it to its most original state, as it appears in the documentary.