Charles & Ray Eames Foundation

The name ‘Eames’ has become inextricably linked to the idea of good design – specifically, great furniture. It’s a mark of status to have an Eames chair, and to know of the story behind the name is to know perhaps the greatest partnership in love and work to contribute to the history of design. A married couple, Charles Eames (1907–1978) and Ray Eames (1912–1988), wanted everyone to have good design in their lives. Though the duo’s furniture designs may now be luxury products, at the time, the work was underpinned by a democratic instinct. Indeed, as the Eameses’ mission statement explained: ‘We want to make the best, for the most, for the least.' What resulted is a body of work that came to define mid-century American interiors – and far beyond. Go to the link in bio to discover our ultimate guide to the Eameses. With thanks to @eamesoffice . Photography, film and archival assets courtesy of © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. Photography of Eames House courtesy of Chris Mottalini, 2025. © 2025 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. With photography contributions from Herman Miller and Vitra ✂️: @millie.gray_

✨ Cyanotype Workshop at the Eames House ✨ Join us at the Eames House on May 16 for a special afternoon of free public access, featuring complimentary cyanotype workshops and a final chance to experience the exhibition Eames House: Impressions of Light. Led by Eames House staff, this free one-hour workshop invites participants to explore cyanotype — one of the earliest photographic processes — using sunlight to create striking blue-and-white prints. Guests will prepare light-sensitive paper and make their own compositions using botanical materials and found objects inspired by the Eames House landscape. 🎨 All materials provided 🎟️ Free, but tickets required through the link in our bio 👥 Workshop registration limited to 2 participants per booking Visitors will also have the opportunity to view James Clar’s monumental cyanotype installation, Sunlight Filtered Through the Eames House (2024), created using the Eames House Studio itself as a photographic lens. Come make, explore, and experience the Eames House through light and shadow! Tickets available through the link in our bio. Photo © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

We are excited to be one of the newest members of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios (@artistshomes.hahs ), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (@savingplaces ). As a peer-to-peer coalition of museums, HAHS brings together sites that were the homes and working studios of significant American artists, leveraging collective experience in historic preservation, visitor programming, and community engagement. The Eames House is now part of this important group of sites capturing American creative life across two centuries, bringing the total to 93 HAHS member sites, spanning 32 states. “Joining the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios network is an exciting opportunity to place the Eames House within a national community of creative sites that illuminate the lives and work of artists and designers. At the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation, we see this as a chance not only to share the multidisciplinary legacy of their work, but also the ideas behind it that remain as instructive and relevant today. We’re honored to contribute to a network committed to preserving these places as sources of inspiration and public understanding.” - Adrienne Luce (@luceinla ), Executive Director Learn more about HAHS and other member sites through the link in our bio! 📸: Ryan Lester © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

We are proud to announce ‘The Eames Houses: Charles and Ray Eames Residential Architecture,’ the first comprehensive sourcebook dedicated to Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architecture. Authored by Eckart Maise, with text contributions from Catherine Ince, and forewords by Norman Foster and Eames Demetrios, the book firmly establishes architecture as a central pillar of the Eames legacy. ‘The Eames Houses’ presents all eight houses designed by the powerhouse couple between 1944 and 1955. Beautifully designed and richly illustrated, the book features both newly commissioned photography and a wealth of materials from the Eames Office’s archives – sketches, drawings, letters, and photographs – many of which are published here for the first time. Accompanying the recently debuted exhibition of the same name, ‘The Eames Houses’ brings the couple’s human-centered approach to modernism firmly into the present. Go to the link in bio to pre-order. Available beginning in May. @eckartmaise @catherineince75 @eamesdemetrios @officialnormanfoster

Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Eames House—reservations now open for an intimate picnic. In anticipation of next week’s gathering, we’re reflecting on a storied Eames tradition. Early on in the history of the Eames House, Charles’ teenage daughter Lucia—Ray’s stepdaughter—would come to accompany the couple during their picnics. Later, Lucia began bringing her own children to join in on what became a customary way of dining at the house. The five Eames grandchildren grew up spending time in the meadow, running and playing among the eucalyptus trees that surround it. After the passings of first Charles and then Ray, Lucia Eames and her children continued to steward the Eameses’ legacy, preserving the Eames House and its cherished meadow for many picnics to come. This year, we continue that tradition with a limited Mother’s Day experience—just eight picnic settings, accommodating up to 32 guests. Each reservation includes a private picnic for up to four guests. Reserve via the link in bio 🧺 📸 © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. #EamesHouse #EamesFoundation #CharlesAndRayEames #MidcenturyModern #MothersDay

Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Eames House—reservations now open for an intimate picnic. In anticipation of next week’s gathering, we’re reflecting on a storied Eames tradition. Before the Eames House was even built, Charles and Ray would picnic in the site’s open meadow overlooking the Pacific Ocean. That connection to the landscape ultimately shaped the design of the house itself. Moving away from an earlier scheme that would have cantilevered the house over the meadow, they chose instead to nestle the structure into the hillside, preserving the open space as a place for gathering. In doing so, the center of domestic life quietly shifted outdoors. The dining room was also reduced in scale, while two terraces became the Eameses’ preferred setting for meals. This year, we continue that tradition with a limited Mother’s Day experience—just eight picnic settings, accommodating up to 32 guests. Each reservation includes a private picnic for up to four guests. Reserve via the “Events” link in bio 🧺 📸 © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. #EamesHouse #EamesFoundation #CharlesAndRayEames #MidcenturyModern #MothersDay

A quick look inside The Eames Houses at the Triennale Milano during Milan Design Week 2026! Presented by @eamesoffice and @kettal in research partnership with @eamesfoundation , the exhibition brings together built, unbuilt, and previously unseen residential work by Charles and Ray Eames, providing insights into their ideas surrounding adaptable, prefabricated living. It also introduces the Eames Pavilion System, developed with Kettal—building on projects like Case Study House No. 8 and translating that thinking into a framework for contemporary living. Drawn from the Eames Office archive, the show includes a wealth of rarely seen material, alongside a new @phaidonpress publication dedicated to their residential work. Link in our bio to pre-order! On view April 21–May 10, 2026 @triennalemilano Congratulations to @eamesoffice , @kettal , the Eames family, and the other collaborators who brought this project to life. We’re honored to be part of this historic moment in the Eames design legacy.

This Mother’s Day, we’re inviting you to slow down and gather in one of Los Angeles’s most beloved landscapes: the sweeping eucalyptus-framed meadow surrounding the iconic Eames House in Pacific Palisades, with its breathtaking views stretching out toward the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Beach. Charles and Ray Eames loved to picnic here with teenage Lucia Eames in the years before and immediately after the House was built, then continued this practice with the five Eames grandchildren. It was a way of inhabiting their landscape, sharing food with people they loved, and finding joy in the everyday. On Sunday, May 10th, we’re reviving this tradition and inviting you to be part of it—with plenty of time to linger and enjoy! Whether you’re bringing your mother, your daughters, a dear friend, or a woman who means the world to you, this is a moment designed to celebrate her beautifully. For more information and to reserve your blanket, visit the "Events" link in our bio. 📸 © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

We're delighted to welcome Dustin Bramell and Leo Seigal to the Board of Directors of the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation. In addition to their backgrounds in business, entrepreneurship, and design, Dustin and Leo recently co-founded @casestudyadapt , a nonprofit initiative that applies the original ethos of the post-war Case Study House Program to develop new resilient housing solutions in the wake of the wildfires in Los Angeles this past year. Their experience and passion will help guide the Foundation as we expand our programming while stewarding the Eames House for generations to come. "Charles and Ray Eames showed how design, experimentation, and optimism could shape the way we live," they shared. "It’s an honor to support the Foundation and help steward that legacy into the future." 📸: @lauren_lotz © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

Limited Edition Prints from “Eames House: Impressions of Light” Charles and Ray’s studio was always alive—where films like “Toccata for Toy Trains” (1957) were made, photos developed in the darkroom, grandchildren played among cardboard boxes, and early drafts of the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman hung on the walls. Decades later, artist James Clar captured the studio’s evolving condition through cyanotype, an early photographic process known for its rich cyan-blue tones. Sunbeams, eucalyptus shadows, and the studio’s grid-like structure are delicately preserved on monumental banners. “Eames House: Impressions of Light” pairs Clar’s banners with Charles and Ray’s own photography and their film “House After 5 Years of Living” (1955), revealing the home as a prism where architecture is beautiful balanced with nature and collected objects. For your own collection, a limited edition series of signed artist prints are available from this inaugural art exhibition. All proceeds go to support conservation and programming efforts at the Eames House. Place an order through the link in our bio. 📸 © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

Apply to work at the Eames House this summer! With generous support from the Getty Foundation, the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation is hosting a Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern in Architectural Preservation for 10 weeks, from June-August 2026. The paid internship, meant to support a current LA-based undergraduate student from a background underrepresented in museums and visual arts organizations, offers the opportunity to gain first-hand experience spanning the work of a non-profit arts foundation. The Architectural Preservation Intern will assist with a multitude of different projects, from preventive conservation of the landmark Eames House in alignment with the Getty Conservation Institute's Conservation Management Plan, to the administration of public programs promoting the Eameses's creative legacy in architecture and design. Work with Eames originals, direct from the beautiful setting Charles and Ray designed on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean. April 11 is the application deadline. Learn more via the "Opportunities" link in our bio. 📸 © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.

This past week, the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation celebrated the opening of Eames House: Impressions of Light, our inaugural exhibition in the newly reopened Eames House Studio, presented in conjunction with @friezeofficial Los Angeles. Over the course of the week, we hosted three gatherings at the Eames House, bringing together friends, collaborators, and supporters to celebrate art, design, and creativity. Together, the exhibition and events reflect an ongoing goal at the Eames House: balancing preservation with activation, and creating a space to explore the continued resonance of Charles and Ray’s ideas. Thanks to artist @_james_clar for presenting his cyanotype banners developed in the Eames House Studio, and for supporting the Foundation through a limited series of artist prints drawn from these works. All proceeds directly support the conservation of the Eames House and programs of the Foundation. Prints are available at the Eames House and, shortly, on our website. Thank you to our exhibition sensorial partner @aesop , opening reception sponsor @cassinaofficial —the exclusive manufacturer of the lighting designs by Charles and Ray Eames—and to our founding sponsor @eamesoffice for their continued partnership and support. Follow along here and visit the ‘Events’ page on our website to stay up to date on upcoming programs. Photographs 1-7, 9: @lauren_lotz © 2026 Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. Photograph 8: © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.