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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
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Today we welcome Tess McCabe to the Guest Blog! This week Tess will be sharing 5 creative women of the past century whose work we still admire today. In Tess' spare time when she not working as a super graphic designer [remember her ace Hobart map?], Tess organises the Creative Women's Circle. THIS SATURDAY is the next CWC speaker event, featuring everyone's favourite Beci Orpin - leave a comment on today's post to be in the draw to win a double pass! - Jenny x
Hello and thanks to Jenny and Lucy for inviting me to guest blog all this week! The Creative Women’s Circle, is dedicated to promoting the work of today’s talented creative women. But this week I’d like to shine a spotlight on some women throughout the last century who without much support or promotion (or the internet!) created work which is still revered and admired today.
Let’s start with a woman who I’m sure many of you are familiar with: Ray Eames. It’s unfortunate that due to Bernice Eames’ nickname, Ray, many assume that the Eames design duo were brothers!
Before meeting Charles in 1941, Ray Kaiser studied abstract expressionism in New York, and she was also the founder of the American Abstract Artists group.
Charles and Ray and collaborated on many design, public art, architecture and film projects throughout their careers.
With her background in art and a bold graphic design style, Ray’s work was cutting edge and she designed several covers for the landmark magazine Arts & Architecture during the 1940s.
These art and graphic design skills easily translated to textiles, and Ray is responsible for some of the most recognisable Eames fabric designs, many of which are displayed in international art museums.
Such was the era that they lived in, at the time most of the Eames’ furniture creations were attributed solely to Charles Eames, but over the decades it has become clear that Ray was most definitely an equal partner in all of their designs, art concepts and film productions.
Fun fact: Charles and Ray’s daughter Lucia Eames is also a highly creative woman – in addition to overseeing the running of the Eames Office, Lucia designs a range of landscape furniture and public commissioned works with her daughter Llisa Demetrios.
- Tess x
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