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Images of the Eames House, circa 1950, photographs. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress (B-32m) The Case Study House Program, established in 1945 by the avant-garde Arts & Architecture magazine, sponsored the design and construction of a series of modern residences as prototypes for mass-produced housing.
The Eames House is one of the best-known examples of American postwar modern residential design. It embodied the objectives of the Case Study House program, which sought to explore how the products of industrial mass production could be applied to postwar housing, and would prove highly influential in residential design during the 1950s.
Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. After attending Washington University in St. Louis on scholarship for two years and being thrown out for his advocacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, he began working in an architectural office. In 1929, he married his first wife, Catherine Woermann (they divorced in 1941), and a year later Charles ...
Dec 18, 2012 · The Eames House. By David A. Keeps, Los Angeles Times. September 24, 2011. Hear the name "Eames," and you probably picture bent plywood "potato chip" chairs, or midcentury tables resting on "paper ...
May 20, 2013 · Eames House, the iconic landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture built in 1949 by husband-and-wife design team Ray and Charles Eames. At the base of a coastal hill in Los Angeles, alongside a large meadow and among eucalyptus trees, sits the Eames House, a masterpiece of midcentury modernism. The 1949 home is part of a group of five ...
Jun 23, 2021 · The Eames House. The husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames created some of the most memorable mid-century designs – their own house being one of them. The Eames House is an icon of mid-20th century modern architecture, located in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles. With the help of their friend Eero Saarinen, the ...
May 17, 2013 · Even though the Eames House is a wonderfully calibrated exercise in steel, glass and concrete panel, inside, the architecture takes a back seat to the extraordinarily diverse collection of objects ...
