In 1957, the Aluminum Company of America invited Charles and Ray to participate in an advertising initiative called the Forecast…
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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…
Education as a Found Object
We will examine a very surprising application of “found education” in the IBM Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York Worlds…
Eames Archives: The House of Science
In a series of commissions for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and the 1968…
Eames Archives: Collaging Ideas
The care and stewardship of the Eames Office’s photographic archive have undergone a transition in the last few months as…
What is a House?
Charles felt very keenly that providing the best possible homes at the lowest possible cost was an architect’s primary responsibility,…
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…
Eames in the Seventies: The Eames Loose Cushion Arm Chair
Arthur Drexler had a record run as the Curator of Architecture and Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art,…
Charles Eames asks “How is it going to look in ten years?”
Hugh DePree and Charles Eames In his book, “Business as Unusual: The People and Principles of Herman Miller,” DePree noted:…
Eames Archives: Bread Smells
Sample Lesson was a lecture series hosted by the University of Georgia’s Department of Fine Arts in January 1953. The…
Your Eames Story: How Charles and Ray Impacted My Life
I knew it first as the “comfy chair,” which sits on the right side of my grandfather’s living room when…