I was wondering around the blogspace I hate the word blog xx sphere just doesn’t sit with me, and found a post about the new postal stamps honoring the work of Ray and Charles Eames.

It’s a wonderful little collection of their work the furniture, the textiles. It’s always easy to show the objects and appreciate them for the experience they bring to our environment. But, we can’t take a picture of the the thought process, the experiences, the research, the experimenting that  brings us to these things. We can only enjoy the product of these processes and know that the process must have been wonderful because the chair we sit in is such a joy to all of our senses.

I want to buy hundreds of the stamps and stick them on postcards and letters to everyone I know.

I want to do a special mailing just so I can put these stamps up in the corner of the envelope, sending beauty on a postal adventure — past the machine eyes that sort and direct. Maybe I should send one of each stamp to myself too.

Tags: eames, stamps, design, modernists