It is easy to assume that projects and recognition happen by a stroke of genius or without many iterations. Charles…
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Five Decades in Five Weeks, 1940s
It is easy to assume that projects and recognition happen by a stroke of genius or without many iterations. Charles…
Eames: United in Life and in Death
After a nearly 40-year marriage and collaboration, Charles died on August 21, 1978. Ray followed 10 years later to the…
How Charles & Ray Eames Found their Land: A Bluff for a New Housing Program
Ray Eames and John Entenza standing on the plot of land where the Eameses built their home, Case Study House #8….
#TBT Pharrell Williams and an Eames chair in GQ
Here are four of the photographs from the fashion shoot, each featuring Pharrell with a different chair. We think Pharrell…
Your Eames Story: My Favorite Spot in the House
I’ve lived in East London for the past nine years, but I grew up in a Richard Neutra House in…
Your Eames Story: Naming Our Son Eames
Growing up, my grandparents had an Eames chair. I didn’t realize how iconic it was as a kid. When I…
Your Eames Story: The Heart of Our Family Home
Milo and Esther playing at the table and putting their family’s Eames chairs to good use. When I first moved…
The Need for Orange
Eames designs are truly built to last. Throughout the years, every job applicant–and there were dozens, including many seasonal employees–sat…
12 Things You Didn’t Know About the Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman
1) Charles and Ray’s friend, artist Sister Corita Kent, did the calligraphy for the first Eames Office graphic of the Lounge…
Five things about Charles and Ray Eames that inspire us today
1) They had a profound respect for learning. In the Eameses’ second Norton Lecture, Charles said the one essential thing…
A Good Learner
Charles Ormand Eames Jr. was born on June 17, 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. His very first memory was of his parents interrupting a…