Gain perspective. Get inspired. Make history. THE EAMES ISSUE PAGE 18 THE HENRY FORD MAGAZINE - JUNE-DECEMBER 2018 | JEANNINE OPPEWALL | ALEX FUNKE | THE POWER OF PLAY | INSIDE THE HENRY FORD THE HENRY | INSIDE OF PLAY THE POWER | ALEX FUNKE | | JEANNINE 2018 OPPEWALL - JUNE-DECEMBER MAGAZINE FORD THE HENRY How did one MAGAZINE couple’s unique JUNE-DECEMBER 2018 perspective on life and art change the everyday? HOLLYWOOD’S JEANNINE OPPEWALL TALKS EAMES, ART CHARLES & RAY, MASTERS AT PLAY EAMES & THE GUEST- HOST RELATIONSHIP The World of Charles and Ray Eames Special Exhibit U.S. Premiere Through Sept. 3, 2018 Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation™ Free to members or with museum admission. Exhibition curated and organised Collaborative Partner Supported by by Barbican Centre, London ® Imagery provided by © Eames Office LLC and the collections of The Henry Ford. Original concept and art direction by John Morgan studio. 2 JUNE-DECEMBER 2018 MAGAZINE JUNE-DECEMBER 2018 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 18 Letter from the President 6 CLOSE TO THE A Phrase or Two 7 MUZZLE Ask + Answer 8 Award-winning special- Off the Shelf 10 effects photographer A Look Back 80 Alex Funke credits the Eames Office for teaching him how to plan for INNOVATION everything and be ready NATION 13 to change anything 26 DON’T LET THE INSIDE STANDARDS DOWN Hollywood elite’s THE Jeannine Oppewall HENRY shares an exclusive look back at her accidental FORD entry into the Eames Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation 50 Office and its lasting Greenfield Village 52 effect on her and her Ford Rouge Factory Tour 54 film career Acquisitions + Collections 56 2018 Events 58 Connect 3 62 36 EAMES IN TOYLAND The prolific design duo placed play at the center of STAY, their lives and their work EXPLORE + SAVOR 65 ON THE COVER DID YOU KNOW? / The opening scene of the 1977 nine-minute film Each slotted card in the Powers of Ten depicts two actors having an ordinary House of Cards picture deck created by Charles picnic in Chicago’s Burnham Park. Produced and Ray Eames displays by designers Charles and Ray Eames, the film, a different object from however, is anything but ordinary. Instead, it is a the animal, mineral and groundbreaking journey in understanding the power vegetable kingdoms. Designed to assemble of perspective that takes us from Earth and back structures both large and again at a rate of 10-to-the-tenth meters per second. small, the cards celebrate Learn more about Powers of Ten on Page 18. the Eameses’ appreciation for the uncommon beauty of common things. WATCH Powers of Ten in The World of Charles and Ray Eames exhibition in Henry Ford Museum of HOUSE OF CARDS PHOTO American Innovation through September 3c BY BILL BOWEN COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF © 2018 EAMES OFFICE LLC EAMESOFFICE.COM thehenryford.org 3 OUR MISSION Who We Are and What We Do TO MAKE A DONATION Jeff Dunlap, 313.982.6167 Gain perspective. 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We depend on ticket purchases, income from our stores and restaurants, and tax-deductible contributions and memberships for support. To learn how your generosity can help take it forward, visit thehenryford.org/support. 4 JUNE-DECEMBER 2018 thehenryford.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES NAME A FAVORITE OBJECT OF GOOD DESIGN. Our contributors tell us. KRISTEN JULIEN PACAUD JAMES HUGHES KATHERINE WHITE MELISSA MCFEETERS GALLERNEAUX The mini synthesizer Newspapers. There’s Jim Miller-Melberg’s The Mason jar. It may Every morning for over OP-1, by the Swedish no object I interact play sculptures. That have a bad reputation as a decade, I’ve used the brand Teenage Engineer- with on a daily basis ubiquitous concrete a kitschy, overused craft same Chemex coffee ing. It is an incredibly that means more to me. turtle — you know the item, but as a kitchen tool maker. It was invented appealing instrument, Dependable, portable, one — can be found in it is simple, durable and by Peter Schlumbohm beautiful and strong. foldable, familiar. public spaces all over versatile. I use them all in the early 1940s, and Its design makes you Redesigns scare me. the world, alongside his the time. not much has changed want to use it, play with Apologies to the trees. more abstract concrete Melissa McFeeters about the design since. it, first because it pleases And to my wife for the towers and walls. They has created editorial The glass beaker the eyes. But it’s also fingerprints. were easily mass- illustrations for and its wood/leather quite powerful, and they produced, affordable, James Hughes is a Philadelphia magazine, handle somehow managed to include lots weathered the elements writer and editor foreignpolicy.com, TED simultaneously of functions in a very well, and invited imagi- based in Chicago. He and The Washington Post. reference “science compact object that can native play and then has covered culture, Her work has appeared lab chic” and “home.” be carried anywhere. withstood its demands. filmmaking and more for in the Communication Miller-Melberg’s play Kristen Gallerneaux Julien Pacaud is a Slate online magazine, Arts Illustration Annual sculptures solved a is the curator of self-taught illustrator the National Hockey and the Print Regional problem with incredible communications and based in Paris. He was League and Apple. Design Annual. elegance and grace. information technology introduced to illustra- Close to the Muzzle, Ask + Answer, at The Henry Ford. She tion after studying Page 18 Katherine White is an Page 8 frequently writes about cinematography at the associate curator at The the intersections of tech- Louis-Lumière school. Henry Ford, where she nology, sound culture, Shaped by the film has the good fortune to creativity and design. world and television, write about a variety Her essay, “Squaring he feeds a database of subjects, from early the Hypothetical Circle: of images that he female aviators to iconic Getting Around Math- gleans here and there midcentury designers. ematica,” appears in to compose surrealist Eames in Toyland, the Barbican Center’s digital collages. Each Page 36 catalog for The World of his compositions, of Charles and Ray combining retro imagery Eames exhibition. and futuristic forms, Don’t Let the Standards invites one to a temporal Down, Page 26 journey in an imaginary world.