Folding Screen by Charles and Ray Eames

Designed by Charles and Ray Eames back in 1946, this moulded plywood screen is still a modern classic. When it pops up in a real home, it's an instantly recognizable standout....

The screen is priced at about $1750 and widely available, as it's still in production by Herman Miller. Here it is, for instance, at Room and Board.

Images: 1: This one's from the Vitra catalog, so it's probably staged, 2: This shot is from a brownstone tour on Casa Cara, 3: This is the home of architect Robin Elmslie Osler, photographed by George Holz for New York magazine

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Anyone interested in the Eames screen should also check out the Alvar Aalto's 1935 pine tambour screen. Similar size and price to the Eames screen (For example, see http://www.unicahome.com/p45542/artek/screen-100-by-alvar-aalto-for-artek.html ).

posted by Platypus on August 27th 2009 at 3:18pm
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Still beautiful...

posted by JeffC on August 27th 2009 at 4:48pm
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Thanks Platypus, I was just thinking didn't Aalto design this.

posted by Marial on August 27th 2009 at 4:52pm
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I love the Eames screen. DWR still offers it, I believe. Affording it has always been one step beyond me.

I now stay in my daughter's apartment in NYC four times a year to get medical treatment. (I'm a former WTC recovery worker with medical issues being addressed by Mt. Sinai Hospital). I've finally insisted on my own roll-out cot, because the living room couch is too punishing to my back and and left leg issues (neurological damage from my medical condition). Now I need a screen so my daughter and her companion can go on about their living and recreational issues without me bothering them and vice-versa.

The Eames screen would be a dream come true. Still, it eludes me budgetarily.

These are problems beyond the AT readership ken usually ... just felt like sharing.

posted by AustinSarah on August 28th 2009 at 3:32am
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this was like hide and seek for me...the first pic had that mutated scrubbing bubbles mascot with laser beams emitting from its eyes on the wall...i had trouble finding the screen, but when i did, oooooh, its nice.

posted by Kpaige13 on August 28th 2009 at 12:28pm
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