Friends of Charles and Ray have suggested that they may have gotten the idea of the shape of the ETR…
Category: Connections
What Kind of a Nothing?
In his conversation with Schefler, Charles used the phrase “do nothing” to characterize the device because even though it has…
Computers and Eames Chairs Come of Age together
Featured in this AP Wire Service photo is I.B.M. Data Systems Engineer Diana Rode; her job was to find solutions…
Five IBM Commissioned Eames Projects
1) The Information Machine: Creative Man and the Data Processor – 1957 IBM commissioned Charles and Ray to make a…
Charles and Ray Eames: Tradesman Who Made Models
Looking at the couple’s expansive body of work that includes everything from furniture and films to exhibitions and architecture, we…
The Toy
Charles and Ray Eames had eclectic passions; Charles was more than an architect, and Ray was more than a painter….
“Life in a Chinese Kite”
With the Eames House gracing the cover, this issue of the magazine updated architecturally-savvy Americans on various topics. It informed…
Four Eames Designs that Began as a Project for a Friend
As the Eameses aimed to solve the lifestyle needs of their most cherished relationships, they concluded that the general public…
Charles Eames says “To hell with the seats”
As the editor of An Eames Anthology, I had to make various decisions about what to include. There is an overwhelming…
On Charles Eames’s birthday, a look at his views on design
Interiors celebrated its 25th birthday in November 1965. To mark the occasion, the magazine interviewed the nation’s most influential designers…
An Eames Anthology: Charles Eames on Chair Evolution
We’ve always been aware of not even attempting to solve the problem of how people should sit, but of rather…
Five Decades in Five Weeks, 1980s
It is easy to assume that projects and recognition happen by a stroke of genius or without many iterations. Charles…