HOLLYWOOD/MIRACLE MILE: Because there's never enough Eames design in anyone's life--on Monday, Collecting Eames will open at the JF Chen showroom in Hollywood with more than 425 pieces designed by Charles and Ray Eames. That includes "an actual pavilion designed by Charles and Ray Eames, erected in the showroom, one of two in existence, other rare Eames objects like a tube radio and every style of Eames chairs in a timeline from 1939 through 1998." Let's repeat that: every style of Eames chair. Highlights include Tim Burton's La Chaise and a 1953 DAT chair owned by curator Daniel Ostroff and featured in the soon-to-be-released "Ice Cube Celebrates Ray and Charles Eames" video. The show runs through January 14 and is open Monday through Friday, 10 am to 4 pm, and Saturday, 12 to 4 pm. And if you're still not done Eamesing, the A+D Museum will also be hosting an Eames show, on the designers' relationship with objects. Here's a promotional interactive postcard that we don't really get, but had fun playing around with anyway. [Curbed Inbox]
WILLOWBROOK: Meanwhile, down in Willowbrook, some contemporary design in the new Martin Luther King Center for Public Health, the first new building to open on the rehabbed Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center campus. The building was designed by Taylor Architects and includes a piece by sculptor Cliff Garten called "Elevations (1)"--it's "a seven-by-seven foot illuminated sculpture made from laser-cut brushed aluminum and a corresponding Venetian plaster wall drawing that measures 12-feet wide by 22-feet tall." The building gets a grand opening next Friday. [Curbed Inbox]
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