Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity offers tours of Charles and Ray Eames' drawings, prototypes, correspondence and collectibles.
Midcentury design trailblazers Charles and Ray Eames are inextricably linked to Los Angeles, where they lived and worked for 40 years at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, and where their Case Study home in the Pacific Palisades is an icon of modern architecture.
Demetrios, a museum curator and artist herself, is now cataloging those contents and re-imagining her grandparents’ legacy with the nonprofit institute she founded in 2022, and its new exhibition space. All of it demonstrates how her color sense and whimsy were essential to the later work of designing textiles, clothing for herself and Charles, choir robes for a church, and uniforms for staff members of IBM’s Pavilion during the 1964 New York World’s Fair. “My favorite were her skirts which had 10 or 12 pockets. It was her tool kit, she kept her car keys, her Polaroid camera in there,” says Demetrios. “They also mended their clothes.
A beautifully curated center display highlights some of the couple’s most important designs, including a set of four molded plywood seats — works in progress — that were forerunners to the famous Eames dining chairs, made by their Kazam! machine that used an inflatable rubber pouch to shape the wood.
“Part of what we like to share here is not just the chairs, but the stories and the questions Ray and Charles asked in designing those chairs,” says Demetrios, pointing out the Eames’ design for airport seating. Other items speak to the designers’ love of play, including letters written to their grandchildren in Rebus, ride-on toys, spinning tops, and Japanese-fish-on-a-string and more collected around the world over the years. Also charming: a 15-foot vertical xylophone that the Eameses designed for the Time-Life building lobby in Manhattan in the 1950s, which plays musical notes when a marble is dropped in the slot above.
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