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Explore the complete works & history of designers Charles & Ray Eames as well as shop for all your favorite Eames products in one place.
- Eames x Art of Play: Hang-It-All Playing Cards
The cards forego traditional playing card symbology with a...
- Eames Molded Plastic Side Chair
In 2004, the Eames Shell Chairs were brought back to life...
- Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman
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- The Coloring Toy
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- Eames House Bird
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- Shop Eames Furniture
Experience the furniture that revolutionized the way we...
- Shop Toys & Kids
In 2007, to mark the centennial of Charles Eames’ birth,...
- Publishing
Charles Eames’s urgency about quality may be his greatest...
- Eames x Art of Play: Hang-It-All Playing Cards
- The Beginning
- The Kazam! Machine
- World War II
- 901
- Today
Charles and Ray Eames married on June 20, 1941, in Chicago. It was a small, intimate ceremony, graciously hosted at a friend’s apartment. Immediately after their wedding, Charles and Ray enthusiastically began the next chapter in their life: California. With no jobs and no concrete prospects on the horizon, the Eameses packed what few belongings th...
Through 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 g...
In 1942, America was geared for war. Charles’s friend Dr. Wendell Scott, stationed in San Diego, visited Charles and Ray in their Los Angeles apartment, and mentioned that the Medical Corps struggled with a problem: The standard metal splints used to brace wounded service members were causing further injury. The problem stemmed from the metal stret...
In 1943, the Eames Office moved into a prominent new Venice location on 901 W. Washington Boulevard, famously known as ‘901’. Here, they investigated new molded plywood applications that included glider shells, chairs, children’s furniture and animals, and eventually the LCW (Lounge Chair Wood) in 1946. The industrious walls of 901 served as home t...
Now, eighty years after Charles and Ray arrived in Los Angeles, the Eames Office remains dedicated to communicating, preserving, and extending one of the world’s most influential design legacies. Charles and Ray’s work was a manifestation of one broad, all-encompassing goal: positively impacting people’s lives and environments. The design duo left ...
Eames Office. +1 310.396.5991 +1 802.479.9874. Learn about the Eames design ethos and Charles & Ray Eames's exuberance for life and work.
Charles & Ray Biography. Charles Ormand Eames Jr., a nearly-licensed architect born in St. Louis in 1907, and Bearnice Alexandra “Ray” Kaiser, an abstract painter born in Sacramento in 1912, are cemented into the canon of 20th-century design.
Charles Eames (Charles Eames, Jr) and Ray Eames (Ray-Bernice Eames) were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office.
The Eames Office Legacy. A glimpse back at the Eames Office since 1988 shows how the legacy of Charles and Ray Eames has been preserved, communicated, and extended.
The most famous of the Eames Office Chair designs, the Alu Group Ribbed and Soft Pad chairs started life as a household range for use both indoors and out. It was only so many years later that the range would be adapted into the office chairs we know and love today. Alu Group Low Back Chairs. Alu Group High Back Chairs. Soft Pad Low Back Chairs.
