If you can wait until the panting days of summer, you will be able to hold in your sweaty little design-whoring hands a number of two-dimensional Charles and Ray Eames replicas, for only 41 cents each.
You may also lick them.
From the USPS press release:
In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture,
furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public.
Oh, there’s more.
This article appears in December 28 • 2007.