Hear the screams? No more Eames (tickets)!

February 20th, 2007

It used to be that you’d only find people using ticket scalpers to score Blazer seats when MJ and Scottie came to town. Now, you’re more likely to find Portlanders jonesing for Rummers and other modern home architectures to be cruising the black market for highly coveted tix to Portland’s only modern home tour this year.

I had intended to highlight the upcoming Street of Eames modern home tour (April 14), but clearly they needed very little promotion. The 2007 edition of the tour sold out in just 51 hours, which included the 250 additional tickets added for this year’s total. As of this morning, Craigslist included at least six pleas for tickets to the event.

Portland has a relatively small number of mid-century and contemporary modern homes but they have a rabid following. The nameplay on the annual “Street of Dreams” luxury home tour alludes to the influential modern design of Charles and Ray Eames. The Street of Eames tour started last year as a fundraiser for Chapman Elementary’s after-school education program for homeless and low-income students.

Brian Libby at portlandarchitecture.com did a nice write-up earlier this month about some of the homes on tour. Here’s the official Street of Eames site, where all you can do now is sign up to get advance notice about 2008’s tour.

Or, as my contact from the Tour said, “There’s always Craigslist.”

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