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This 20-card 11" x 7" picture deck designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1953 as an addition to the House of Cards family. The images are of what Eameses called "good stuff ", chosen to celebrate "familiar and nostalgic objects from the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms."
The six slots on each card enable the player to interlock the cards so as to build structures of myriad shapes and sizes.
With the help of the player?s creativity and imagination, the House of Cards demonstrates the Eames' conviction that both beauty and utility can be found in everyday objects.
The Eames Office actually produced 5 different sets of the House of Cards:The small house of cards is the original, made in 1952. It originally had two decks: the picture deck and the pattern deck. It is the picture deck that we manufacture today in conjunction with MOMA. From that original design the Medium House of Cards was made; it is a set of selections from both the pattern and picture deck. Shown here is the Giant House of Cards (1953), also made, but no longer in production were the Computer House of Cards (1970) and Newton House of Cards for the 1974 Nobel Laureates. |
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