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   S2 · E1 · 8 Mar 2023 · 40 min

   Ray Eames: Beauty in the Everyday

   New Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband. In this episode, we uncover the talented artist who saw the world full of color, the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, and the visionary who treated folk art, cigarette wrappers, flowers, and toys as equally valuable and inspiring. Ray brought the sparkle to the legendary Eames Office, as you'll discover in this episode "Beauty in the Everyday: The Life and Work of Ray Eames." Special thanks in this episode to Pat…

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   S1 · E5 · 14 Mar 2022 · 37 min

   Florence Knoll: Total Design

   With her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be remembered, Florence Knoll is generally recognized as the single most powerful figure in the field of modern design. As an architect, Florence was the force behind the seamless integration of furniture, space, textile, art, graphic design into a perfect brand concept: Total Design. Her influence transcends the specific disciplines, she was the force integrating them, and in her work at the Knoll Planning Unit, she promulgated the values that still…

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   S1 · E4 · 14 Mar 2022 · 39 min

   Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand

   Norma Sklarek had many "firsts". She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States. That distinction actually goes to Beverly Greene – Norma was the 3rd. But it didn't matter. Young black girls read her name in the likes of Ebony Magazine – a staple publication in every black household at the time – when she was included in their 1958 article on "Successful Young Architects". As more and more discovered her career, she became their role model. Like so many women, then and now, she chose a management path. Achievement was…

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   S1 · E3 · 14 Mar 2022 · 31 min

   Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops

   Who hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy? There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country. These family restaurants are core to how America defined itself after World War II. Cars, families, space flight, modernism....the new world order.... And who defined that fun and futuristic look? Our pioneering LA woman architect: Helen Fong. She was born in 1927 in Los Angeles Chinatown where her immigrant parents ran a laundry that she often worked at as a child. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was still intact, and you can…

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   S1 · E2 · 15 Feb 2022 · 48 min

   Natalie de Blois – To Tell The Truth

   Natalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After leaving this significant mark on post-war Park Avenue, she transferred to the SOM Chicago office, where she became actively involved in the architecture feminist movement and was one of the leaders in the newly formed Chicago Women in Architecture advocacy group. Later, she finished her career as a professor at UT Austin, where she trained a future generation of architects. As an architect, Natalie loved systems – understanding how things worked.…