Eames Elephant
2007 · Child's chair
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Charles Eames
American, 1907
De Stijl
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None documented
24
Institutional Exhibitions
129
Works in Collection
227
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3
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Charles Eames, 1907�1978
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Charles Eames Furniture from the Design Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
About
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Charles Eames was an American designer and filmmaker whose practice spanned furniture, architecture, and exhibition design in the postwar period. Working with his wife Ray, he developed iconic molded plywood and fiberglass chairs that merged industrial production with organic form, establishing a vocabulary for modern domestic space. His experimental films and multimedia installations explored perception and scientific phenomena, while his architectural designs, including the Eames House in Los Angeles, integrated living and working space as a unified laboratory. Eames' work fundamentally shaped American modernism by treating design as a problem-solving discipline that connected craft, technology, and everyday life.
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