Eames Spotting

  • Whether You’re In Love With Louis XV or Charles Eames

    January 22, 1970
    An Eames 670 is represented in this 1960s Lightolier ad, which proclaims: "Whether you're in love with Louis XV or Charles Eames, if you have the electricity, Lightolier has the fixture."

  • Cool when it’s hot

    January 15, 1970
    An Eames LCW serves as the backdrop for this May 1949 advertisement for a "chaste and lovely chambray by Jamison with its neck scooped gently from front and back..."

  • “For young moderns with a talent for taste”

    January 15, 1970
    This mid-fifties magazine advertisement uses three Herman Miller designs: a George Nelson thin edge bed, a George Nelson side table, and an Eames LAR, to associate "young moderns with a talent for taste" to their Chatham Blankets.

  • You Can Protect Your Family Against Fallout!

    January 15, 1970
    The Kelsey-Hayes Company envisions Eames chairs in your Fallout Shelter in this vintage advertising, circa 1963

  • It’s THE Compact

    January 5, 1970
    Smith-Corona Marchant puts two Eames chairs but only one typewriter in this advertisement for their new "compact office electric."

  • Full Scale Performance

    February 15, 1962
    An Eames PSCC-4 epitomizes "Full Scale Performance" in this 1962 Packard Bell advertisement.

  • California Design 6 and an Eames Chair

    January 10, 1960
    The Eames DCM photograph we feature is reproduced from the front plate of the CALIFORNIA DESIGN 6 catalogue published for the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon Museum) exhibition. "California Design" was an annual event at the museum and this, the sixth such presentation, was on display from January 10 to February 21, 1960.

  • To Enrich Any Home

    April 15, 1959
    An Eames LCW sets off this Magee carpet in a 1949 LADIES HOME JOURNAL advertisement.

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