Happy Valentine's Day from all of us at Weisshouse! Whether you're spending Saturday night out on the town or curling up with a good movie, why not start the weekend off with some major inspiration from our favorite couples in Art & Design. Leave your top pick in the comments and then head over to our Pinterest for more a few more reasons that these design duos should be on your radar.
Charles and Ray Eames
Thanks
to their enormous contribution to the world of modern architecture, furniture,
and filmmaking, American designers Charles and Ray Eames have become household
names. Their office functioned for more than four decades (1943–1988) in the
former Bay Cities Garage, the birthplace of such masterpieces as the LCW Lounge
Chair, The Case Study House, and The Powers of Ten (film). Ray Eames died in
Los Angeles in 1988, ten years to the day after Charles. They are buried next
to each other in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.
Josef and Anni Albers
Josef and Anni
Albers, lifelong artistic adventurers, were among the leading pioneers of
twentieth-century modernism. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was an influential
teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist—now best known for the Homages to the Square he painted
between 1950 and 1976 and for his innovative 1963 publication Interaction of Color. Anni Albers
(1899–1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer, and printmaker who inspired
a reconsideration of fabrics as an art form, both in their functional roles and
as wallhangings. – via AlbersFoundation.org
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Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner
The couple dominated American abstract expressionism during the second half of the 20th century. Krasner’s desire to revise her aesthetic or what she called "breaks," led to her innovative Little Image series of the late 1940s, her bold collages of the 1950s, and, later, her large canvases, brilliant with color, of the 1960s. Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. He rocketed to fame following an August 8, 1949 four-page spread in Life magazine that asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?"
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Lella and Massimo Vignelli
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| via ifc center |
One of the first and most dominant power couples of the design world is
Lella and Massimo Vignelli, the influential creators of graphics,
products, furniture, interiors, and jewelry for more than six decades.
Lella and Massimo each have distinct creative voices and mediums, yet
together both represent the same name and brand: Vignelli.
Barry Bergdoll,
curator of architecture and design at MoMA, notes in the film that "The
Vignellis are known by everybody, even by people who don’t know their
name. They’re surrounded by the things that they’ve conceived." Take for
example the famous New York City Subway map. It originally caused a
stir for introducing radical simplicity—more a diagram than map—that was maligned and modified by the Transit Authority, but it's nonetheless today in the MoMA permanent collection. - via The Atlantic
Charline Von Heyl and Christopher Wool
Charline
von Heyl (born 1960) is a German artist best
known for her abstract painting. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and
collage. She lives and works in New York and Marfa,
Texas, together with her husband and fellow painter Christopher
Wool. Architectural Digest says of Von Heyl's work “richly dissonant, enigmatic canvases, the artist continually pushes
painting in compelling new directions.”
Christopher Wool is perhaps best known
for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or
phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run-on configurations that disrupt
ordinary patterns of perception and speech. - http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/christopher-wool
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Madelon Vriesendorp and Rem Koolhaas
Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as
one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early
1970s. Remment
Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and
Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. OMA is a leading international
partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's
buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while
inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. http://www.oma.eu/oma
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Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan
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| via lucky shops |
Doonan is the creative director of Barneys New York.
He is also a columnist for The New York Observer and the
author of four books. Adler is a potter, designer, and author. Adler launched
his first ceramic collection in 1993 at Barneys
New York. Five years later he expanded into home furnishings, opening his
first namesake boutique in Manhattan inspired by Mid-century modern, art and
global pop culture.
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Inez and Vinoodh
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| via showstudio.com |
For over two decades, the meticulous and audacious
imagery created by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin has challenged and
inspired the field of fashion photography. Working together since
1986, the Dutch partnership rose to fame in the early 1990s.
Experimenting with the latest digital imaging technologies, their early
work captured the imagination of art critics, who were mesmerized by the
sophisticated interplay of elegance and horror in their images. http://inezandvinoodh.com/texts/bio/
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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| ©2005 Christo Photo: Wolfgang Volz |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on
the same date, Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They
first met in Paris in October 1958. Their works were credited to just
"Christo" until 1994, when the outdoor works and large indoor
installations were retroactively credited to "Christo and
Jeanne-Claude". They flew in separate planes: in case one crashed, the other could continue
their work.
Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November
18, 2009, from complications of a brain
aneurysm. Although their work is visually
impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists
have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than
their immediate aesthetic impact.
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