In 1959, Charles and Ray #Eames designed a 3/4th-inch scale model house for Revell Company, a toy manufacturer. Unfortunately, the prototype, known as the Revell Toy House, never made it to market, though it did become a helpful tool for Herman Miller.
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Eames in 90 Seconds: Revell Toy House
In 1959, Charles and Ray #Eames designed a 3/4th-inch scale model house for Revell Company, a toy manufacturer. Unfortunately, the prototype, known as the Revell Toy House, never made it to market, though it did become a helpful tool for Herman Miller.
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The Eames Molded Plywood Folding Screen, aka FSW or Folding Screen Wood, had its origins in Charles and Ray Eames’s earliest plywood experiments and was first introduced in 1946. They are exceptional room dividers, backdrops, and, as it turns out, the perfe...
Open this video on Eames OfficeVenice Beach Skateboarders - Charles Eames Polavision Footage
Recently, the Eames Office undertook a project of preserving ninety-five cassettes of deteriorating Polavision (Polaroid’s experimentation with instant video) footage shot by Charles and Ray, as well as additional Eames Office staff members in 1977.
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: The LCW – A New Furniture Design
Time Magazine branded the Eames LCW “The Chair of the Century,” and this year marks the 75th anniversary of the chair’s existence. Despite seeming superbly contemporary, one may not realize that today’s highly-coveted LCW has close ties with the end of WWII...
Open this video on Eames OfficeCurator's Tour: Ray Eames In the Spotlight (Segment 2: California Here We Come!)
RAY EAMES IN THE SPOTLIGHT was a 2014 exhibition featuring letters, notes, sketches, paintings, photographs, process drawings, furniture, films, and collections tracing Ray Eames's varied interests and interaction with key people, places, and institutions. ...
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: Celebrating Ray
In 1944, Ray Eames, a high-spirited and trained abstract painter, participated in a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Additionally, Ray wrote about the show for the October 1944 installment of Arts & Architecture magazine, an issue w...
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: Thinking of Bucky and The Toy
Released to children across the country in 1951, The Toy was neatly packaged in a hexagonal tube. Its contents were simple: triangular panels of thick paper, wooden dowels, and colored wire attachments. When speaking about the toy’s early design stages, Cha...
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: Interwoven Lives
There is a misconception about Charles and Ray Eames: they spent a great deal of time entertaining, socializing, and traveling. This idea isn’t necessarily true because they spent most of their time working. If they traveled, it was often for business. Thei...
Open this video on Eames OfficeCurator's Tour: Ray Eames In the Spotlight (Segment 1: Early Years)
RAY EAMES IN THE SPOTLIGHT was a 2014 exhibition featuring letters, notes, sketches, paintings, photographs, process drawings, furniture, films, and collections tracing Ray Eames's varied interests and interaction with key people, places, and institutions. ...
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: The Solar Toy and a Visual Language of Sorts
There is a very recognizably “Eames” quality to most of Charles and Ray’s furniture designs—and in their architecture, exhibitions, films, and toys. A visual language of sorts, that allows you to connect the dots along the output of the Eames Office. The Ea...
Open this video on Eames OfficeEames Archives: The House of Science
In a theatre adjacent to the IBM festivities at the Seattle World’s Fair, the #Eames film The House of Science was looped for the fair’s 9.6 million attendees. After the fair's six-month lifespan expired, IBM funded the reproduction of The House of Science ...
Open this video on Eames OfficeThe Story of the IBM Newton Deck of Cards
Charles and Ray had a very close working relationship with IBM. Their Newton Deck of Cards, a gift to Nobel Laureates in IBM’s physics department, demonstrates their partnership with the company and the robust yet nimble nature of the Eames Office. Eames De...
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