Eames Spotting

  • “A Black With Feeling”

    April 16, 2013
    Vitra announced a re-work of classic Charles and Ray Eames designs at Salone del Mobile. Holding the license to these works in Europe, Vitra updates both colors and materials on the Eames collection. The stand-outs in the re-works in black including the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Plastic Chairs, Wire Chair, and stool.

  • Re-Think The Eames

    April 12, 2013
    Re-Think the Eames” is the name of a project by students at Geneva’s University of Art and Design, HEAD for short, which takes the Eames’ 1964 “think theater” as a starting point to showcase as yet unpublished material from the famous couple’s archive in a state-of-the-art multiscreen environment. The archive includes images of aquatic animals, movie sets, showrooms, life in the legendary Hangar 901 in Santa Monica, California, and much more besides.

  • Eames Ovoid Theatre

    April 3, 2013
    The 1964-65 New York World's Fair IBM pavilion, designed by Charles & Ray Eames with Studio Saarinen, featured a suspended ovoid theatre over a canopy of steel trees, in which a multimedia show offered glimpses of the future. From the DOMUS Magazine archive.

  • California Hall of Fame Ceremonies

    March 25, 2013
    Eames Demetrios stands with California Governor Jerry Brown as he inducts Charles and Ray Eames into the California Hall of Fame.

  • Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things

    March 15, 2013
    London's Design Museum new exhibition shows select objects from their permanent collection, including an Eames LAR and an iMac

  • Ray Eames: A Century of Modern Design

    February 23, 2013
    February 23, 2013 to February 23, 2014 this all new exhibition is the first to explore the early life and work of Ray Eames.

  • Architecture in Playboy

    February 16, 2013
    PLAYBOY, which Hugh Hefner founded back in 1953, not only had a hand in shaping the heterosexuality of the American male; it may have taught him how he could leverage architecture and design to bag a babe. That’s the thesis of Architecture in Playboy, 1953–1979, an exhibition at the NAiM/Bureau Europa, in the Netherlands, that explores how the magazine depicted the major design players of the time.

  • Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter

    February 6, 2013
    Watch the Full Documentary Film on line now, sponsored by PBS American Masters

  • Ray’s Displays: The Thoughtful Displays of Ray Eames

    November 30, 2012
    Blog by Jennifer Snyder for The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Blog

  • Tools and Eames designs

    November 15, 2012
    Research into all aspects of the history of Eames designs is on-going. My latest discovery relates to the thinking behind the Eames "x-base."

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