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15/06/2008 6:45 am  

twisted tongues
Not heavy metal hair band related.
While it is likely I'm just muddling things a bit, surely it's worth a try... Taken from Columbia Encyclopedia. Likely more, but I'm lacking patiences with internet speeds.
Eero Saarinen
(ā'rō sä'rĭnĕn)
Arne Jacobsen
(är'nə yä'kŏpsən)
Eames
(āmz)
Richard Neutra
(noi'trə, nū'trə)
Breuer
(broi'ər)


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15/06/2008 7:43 am  

Except it's
NOT ames, or nutra. . .
or was this irony ?
deconstruction ?


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Sound & Design
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16/06/2008 10:54 pm  

Another reference
I'm feeling really geeky...Webster's World Dictionary has Eames pronounced [emz].
Anyone up for a cold can of h[ames]?


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Robert Leach
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17/06/2008 3:14 am  

Sure!
Just slip into my George Armani Jacket with my Peter Cardin tie 😉


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barrympls
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17/06/2008 6:30 pm  

Eames Era is annoying as heck
if you are knowledgeable and want to cut through the 'crap' to get to the good stuff, but I guess I understand why they do it.
They have 'modern' stuff and they want as many people to be see it.
Of course, all of the tackiest low class modern "motel" furniture to included in 'Eames Era', but you can't blame them for trying!
Besides, occasionally an "Eames Era" listing includes something of great rarity that the listwer doesn't know about...so you CAN find a great item using this classification.


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NULL NULL
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27/07/2008 11:56 am  

native pronunciation
English pronunciation for Jorge can be approximated as
HHAORHHey, and the mp3 can be heard here:
http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Jorge


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barrympls
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27/07/2008 6:49 pm  

It's Sunday morning...and
I have come up with some alternatives for "Eames Era":
Eamesish
Eames-like
Eamesful
Seriously, people probably call anything modern Eames or Eames Era, because
1) they want you to snag you into their auction
2) they are clueless
3) they are following the crowd and want your business
Us more knowledgable people get frustrated, but I'm more annoyed by all of the lousy "George Nelson" clocks that are not exact reproductions, but 'similar' to Nelson Associates clocks and have "George Nelson" on their clockface.


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barrympls
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28/07/2008 1:00 am  

Add
Eamesola
Eames au-go-go


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Brent
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28/07/2008 2:24 am  

Lexicon
It's weird how nuanced such keywords can be on ebay. These are roughly the results I expect to find when searching by certain terms.
* Eames = Everything and often irrelevant.
* Mid-century modern = More true Eames Era, less Eamesish.
* Retro = I know, I know. But sometimes sellers call things retro because they don't know to say the designer of the strange chair was Charles Eames. Good deals can be found.
* 1950s = Okay if you have hours to spend sorting results.
* 50s = For some reason, just dropping the '19' gives results that tend toward sentimentalism. Think bobby sox and poodle skirts.
* Fifties = Spelling it out entirely results in total shite. Think Franklin Mint commemorative plates.
* Danish Modern = Often great, though it can be a catch-all like the term 'retro'
* Modern = One of my favorites when searching under the 'furniture' subcategory. I think for sellers it captures a certain feeling about style. It could be from any era, but usually is mid-century.
* Mod = Lots of hipster t-shirts.
* George Nelson = Made in China.


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barrympls
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28/07/2008 4:09 am  

LOL, Brent
George Nelson usually includes all of his real designs too, though...so I still use it,


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LuciferSum
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28/07/2008 10:38 pm  

From the mouthes of babes.
I had a chance to meet a member of the Eames Office and I asked proper pronunciation. She said Charles & Ray EEEmes. Rhymes with screams, dreams, and creams. That was the way they referred to themselves, not Ames.


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barrympls
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29/07/2008 1:12 am  

I've always thought it WAS
Eames as in Eeeeeames


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Brent
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30/07/2008 9:23 am  

Eames
So, an item I was bidding on was pulled by ebay. According to the seller, it was pulled because she wasn't allowed to use the terms 'Eames' or 'Wegner' in the listing. To be exact, she'd described the item as a "Vintage Teak Danish Modern wall lamp Wegner, Eames era"


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Brent
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30/07/2008 9:27 am  

Correction: WEGNER
She looked again at the ebay notice and the offending word is just Wegner! So Eames Era good, Wegner Era bad, apparently.


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NULL NULL
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30/07/2008 7:17 pm  

Imes
I went to a hair salon that had some nice Danish teak chairs. I asked the owner if I could look at the bottom of one to see who made them, since they were such handsome chairs. She said, "Oh, you mean the Imes chairs? They're Imes." After some back-and-forth, I finally figured out that she meant Eames.
As for Ebay titles, I listed a knockoff of a Bojesen design and called it "Bojesen style". It got pulled. (Ebay doesn't go looking for these, by the way---they rely on users to report listing violations.) The words "style" and "type" are not allowed, but I think that's because of hundreds of thousands of "Gap style" garments, for example, that are listed. It screws up the search results for people who are looking specifically for Gap or other brands. Bojesen is pretty obscure compared to Gap, Banana Republic, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, etc. But rules are rules. The person who reported my auction may have been a rival seller.


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