The Eames House (Case Study #8), Los Angeles
A meccano house of steel and colour, 1949. How Charles and Ray Eames invented joyful modern living in a single home.
1 MIN · 5 OBJECTS IDENTIFIEDOn a cliff in Pacific Palisades, a colourful meccano house redefined the modern home. The Eames House (Case Study #8, 1949) by Charles and Ray Eames is proof that industrial can rhyme with joyful.
A house from a catalogue
Assembled from standard industrial elements (steel beams, panels, glass), it proves you can build a house that is beautiful and cheap from off-the-shelf components. A colourful grid façade in the manner of Mondrian.
The Eames way of living
Inside, joyful accumulation: objects from all over the world, plants, textiles, their own furniture. The opposite of cold minimalism — a warm, living, personal modernism.
The influence
The Eames House invented a way of living: rational structure + human filling. All of today's "warm modernism" descends from it.
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The pieces, at your budget.
Every piece mentioned, with its alternatives — from vintage to dupe.
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