It was at Charles and Ray’s Strathmore Apartment, the genesis of the Eames Office, where they worked tirelessly to develop techniques for molding plywood. They began endless hands-on trial-and-error experiments inside their apartment and using a tool they invented called the “Kazam! machine”, Charles and Ray created a process to bend molded plywood into a compound curved shell. The first step of the process involved placing a sheet of veneer into the Kazam! machine mold, and then they added a layer of glue on top of it. They repeated this process five to eleven times. Next, they used a bicycle pump to inflate a rubber balloon after the machine clamped shut, and the balloon pushed the wood against the form. Once the glue set, Charles and Ray released the pressure and removed the seat from the mold, “ala Kazam!—like magic.”
Each Kazam Machine Print is custom-made to your specifications. Please allow 5-7 business days post-purchase for the printing and framing of the print.
Please note for frameless prints: some print varieties may be slightly smaller than the listed dimension size, this may require you to mat the image yourself to fit it into your frame or it may require you to buy a custom-size frame.
