American Masters Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter Premieres nationally Monday, December 19 at 10 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings)
Interviewees (in order of appearance)
Richard Saul Wurman, Founder, TED
Kevin Roche, Architect; Founder, Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, and Associates
Tina Beebe, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects
Eames Demetrios, Charles Eames’ grandson; Director, The Eames Foundation
Deborah Sussman, former Eames Office designer; Founder, Sussman-Prezja
Pat Kirkham, Professor of Design History and Cultural Studies, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture; Author, Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1995)
Donald Albrecht, Architecture and Design Curator
Gordon Ashby, former Eames Office Designer
Jeannine Oppewall, former Eames Office Designer; Art Director, four Academy Award nominations for Best Art Design for L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, and The Good Shepherd
Bill Tondreau, winner of three Academy Awards for technical achievements in software and motion control
Jed Perl, Art Critic, The New Republic
Marilyn Neuhart, Author, The Story of Eames Furniture
Ralph Caplan, Design Critic
Richard Wright, Auctioneer
Paul Schrader, Director and Screenwriter, Golden Globe nominee for Best Screenplay for Raging Bull and Taxi Driver
Joe Giovannini, Architecture Critic
Judith Wechsler, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Zeke Seligsohn, IBM Consultant, retired
Ford Peatross, Director, Center for Architecture & Design, Library of Congress
Meg McAleer, Senior Archives Specialist, Library of Congress
Lucia Eames, Charles Eames’ Daughter
Thomas S. Hines, joint appointment with History and the Department of Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA
Sam Grawe, former Editor-in-Chief, Dwell Magazine
Bob Blaich, Founder, Blaich Associates (Aspen, CO); former Design Director, Herman Miller
John Neuhart, former Eames Office Designer; Neuhart, Donges, Neuhart; now deceased
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