LOCATION:
1700 DEL PASO BLVD. SACRAMENTO, CA 95815
BACKGROUND:
FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE GREENS HOTEL, THE DEVELOPER OF THE PROPERTY LOOKED FOR DESIGN INSPIRATION AS TOOL TO REINNOVATE THE HOTEL AND NEARBY GALLERY SPACE. A THEMED HOTEL BASED ON SACRAMENTO BORN DESIGNER RAY EAMES EMERGED AS ONE CONCEPT. THE FOLLOWING PROJECT FOCUSES ON A RAY EAMES THEME AND CREATES A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE FOR HOTEL GUESTS AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. THE CONCEPT OF THE HOTEL REVOLVES AROUND THE WORKS AND DESIGNS OF RAY KAISER EAMES. BY USING HER KNOWN WORKS THROUGHOUT THE HOTEL, IT WILL MAKE GUESTS FEEL THAT THEY ARE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD. EACH PART OF THE HOTEL COMMEMORATES THE DIFFERENT DESIGNS THAT SHE HAS DONE BEFORE AND AFTER SHE MET CHARLES EAMES. THE DESIGNS INCLUDED ARE THE ONES SHE WAS MOST INVOLVED AND IN SOME CASES DESIGNED BY HER. THE EXISTING GALLERY SPACE WILL BE A HYBRID OF BOTH A GALLERY SPACE FOR LOCAL ARTISTS AND EXHIBIT OF RAY’S ORIGINAL WORKS. SINCE SHE WAS AN ABSTRACT PAINTER TAUGHT BY HANS HOFMANN BEFORE MEETING CHARLES, THE GALLERY SPACE WILL BE FOR LOCAL ARTISITS ASPIRING ABSTRACT ART. THE EXHIBIT PART OF GALLERY WILL BE FOR RAY EAMES. I INTEND ORIGINAL WORKS THAT GO INTO THE EXHIBIT TO BE DONATED BY THE EAMES OFFICE AND FROM THE CALIFORNIA MUSEUM IN DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO WHO ALREADY HAVE AN EXHIBIT FOR RAY EAMES HERSELF UP UNTIL FEBRUARY 2014.
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