Eames living room at LACMA

…(so familiar to me from regular pilgrimages during my early years in LA, when I trotted every out-of-town-guest for a visitation to the Pacific Palisades home of Charles and Ray, still one of my favorite places in town) was a strange thing to suddenly come upon when rounding the corner at the Pacific Standard Time show “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way” at LACMA – transplanted to the museum, with everything just as they left it, while The Eames Foundation has the floors replaced, but feeling strangely soul-less – with plastic plants, and instead of the meadow out the window, it was just us and white walls.