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If creativity and the arts, in general, permeate the brood, architecture and design are fields that mostly single out the men. Her works “hold the eye by means of an ambiguous drama,” read a New Yorker review. The middle one, Sasha, has since childhood produced paintings of chromatic exuberance. ![]() Catherine became the project’s director of Magnum Photos, the famous photo agency founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and her youngest sister, Maro, is an Emmy nominated filmmaker and department chair of social documentary film at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Intelligence and creativity, sure, but is the drive to overachieve hereditary as well? Do ambition, resolve and elbow grease travel down generations? The Chermayeff pool attests to the likelihood of this: it is reliably peopled by distinguished Type-A creatives. Not only were they there when it happened, more often than not, they were the ones that made it happen. Everyday life for her and her family is something that filled the pages of our history books. Childhood summers on Cape Cod were spent exploring wooded paths and having sleepovers with her friend Francesca Breuer, Marcel’s daughter. Peter, Serge and Barbara, Jane and Ivan 1977Ĭatherine Chermayeff’s parents, Ivan and Sara, were hanging out at their friend Miles Davis’s house the night before she was born. We share in their family gatherings and see how dinner table conversations can profoundly alter the fields of architecture and design for generations upon generations By Carson Chan We meet Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, and the Gropiuses in their New England home where Ivan and Peter would spend weekends in their youth we travel from the Caucasian steppes to Britain and scamble of American cities before flying eastwards to Tokyo. Together, the brothers reconceptualized Boston’s transit system: they colour coded the train lines, and named it ‘the T.’ The story continues with Sam, Ivan’s son, a rallying leader and Kazuyo Sejima/SANAA’s right-hand man at the last Venice Architecture Biennial, who recently founded an architecture partnership in Berlin. Ivan, the original Don Draper, gave NBC its rainbow peacock emblem that greets viewers every day before the news Peter has led the design of the world’s most cherished aquariums. It’s about his sons, Ivan and Peter, whose combined output has quite concretely shaped public space for countless millions. It’s the ascension of Serge, a young Russian tango dancer in Jazz Age London, who ended up a pioneering cynosure of American architecture education (Sir Norman Foster: ‘At Yale, Serge Chermayeff had an incredible impact on me.’). ![]() Their tale has been spinning out for more than a century. But to flip through the hidebound epic of their collective lives is to realize the depths of their influence in the world of architecture and design. THE CHERMAYEFF CENTURY For the newest wave of cultural observers, the name CHERMAYEFF may not mean much.
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