Eames Lighting Design... Or, A search for light in the Eames Universe...
...Who did feel motivated and called upon were the Museum of Modern Art, and who in 1950 instigated the competition New Lamps "to encourage the design and production of good portable table and floor lamps employing incandescent bulbs"15, a competition run in conjunction with the Heifetz lighting company, one of the more prominent producers of contemporary lighting at that time, and whose President Yasha Heifetz had been, perhaps understandably, one of the more vocal disputants of Breuer's claims concerning contemporary American lighting designs16; and a competition which resulted in an exhibition that opened on March 28th 1951, and which presented designs by the likes of Joseph Burnett, Gilbert A... Where is the Eames entry to New Lamps 1950?...
