--- title: "Charles Eames" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/charles-eames" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Charles Eames ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T17:04:31+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Charles Eames United States - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/charles-eames) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/charles-eames) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/charles-eames/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/charles-eames/contributions) - [Website](http://www.eamesoffice.com) Address: ## Charles Eames Eames Office United StatesT: 310.396.5991 F: 310.391.8253 [www.eamesoffice.com](http://www.eamesoffice.com) Products by Charles Eames [![postcard set 1 / classical furniture](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/K/Kolor/Produkte/postcard%20set%201%20/%20classical%20furniture/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/20260312-142405_kolor-postcard-classics-furniture-berlinerluft-postkarten-eames-set-01.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/kolor/postcard-set-1-classical-furniture-by-eames) [Kolor postcard set 1 / classical furniture](https://www.stylepark.com/en/kolor/postcard-set-1-classical-furniture-by-eames) [![Organic Chair Sheepskin Limited Edition](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/2366722_Organic-Chair-Sheep-Skin_master.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/organic-chair-sheepskin-limited-edition) [Vitra Organic Chair Sheepskin Limited Edition](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/organic-chair-sheepskin-limited-edition) [![Eames fiberglass 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104](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/aluminium-chair-ea-104) [![Aluminium Chair EA 103](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/aluminium-chair-ea-103/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/aluminium-chair-ea-103-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/aluminium-chair-ea-103) [Vitra Aluminium Chair EA 103](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/aluminium-chair-ea-103) [![Aluminium Chair EA 101](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/aluminium-chair-ea-101/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/aluminium-chair-ea-101-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/aluminium-chair-ea-101) [Vitra Aluminium Chair EA 101](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/aluminium-chair-ea-101) [![Wire Chair 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chrome](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/soft-pad-drehstuhl-dark-chrome) [![Eames Plastic Side Chair DSW](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/eames-plastic-side-chair-dsw/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/eames-plastic-side-chair-dsw-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/eames-plastic-side-chair-dsw) [Vitra Eames Plastic Side Chair DSW](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/eames-plastic-side-chair-dsw) [![Soft Pad stool](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/soft-pad-stool/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/soft-pad-stool-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/soft-pad-stool) [Vitra Soft Pad stool](https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/soft-pad-stool) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/charles-eames) Biography Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (e.g., the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts. Charles Eames was born in 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended school there and developed an interest in engineering and architecture. After attending Washington University 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' only child, daughter Lucia was born. In 1930, Charles started his own architectural office. He began extending his design ideas beyond architecture and received a fellowship to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he eventually became head of the design department. Charles and Ray married in 1941 and moved to California where they continued their furniture design work with molding plywood. During the war they were commissioned by the Navy to produce molded plywood splints, stretchers and experimental glider shells. In 1946, Evans Products began producing the Eameses' molded plywood furniture. Their molded plywood chair was called "the chair of the century" by the influential architectural critic Esther McCoy. Soon production was taken over by Herman Miller, Inc ., who continues to produce the furniture in the United States to this day. Another company, Vitra International , manufactures the furniture in Europe. In 1949, Charles and Ray designed and built their own home in Pacific Palisades, California as part of the Case Study House Program sponsored by Arts and Architecture Magazine. Their design and innovative use of materials made this house a mecca for architects and designers from all over the world. It is considered one of the most important post-war residences built anywhere in the world. Articles about Charles Eames [FAIRS & EVENTS Transform! 3/22/2024 With this imperative title, the Vitra Design Museum recently opened a new special exhibition: Until 1 September, ideas around the theme of "Design and the future of energy" will be presented in Weil am Rhein.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/transform-vitra-design-museum-transform-exhibition-future-energy-vitra-design-museum-stylepark-magazine) [REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023 Back to the future 4/24/2023 What does a trade fair like the Salone del Mobile.Milano currently need in order to inspire companies and guests alike? With which concepts do the creatives of Milan Design Week react to the structural changes that the industry has undergone in the last four years? Our Review.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/salone-del-mobile-milano-milan-design-week-design-architecture-art-light-euroluce-stylepark-magazin) [ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW Flexibility for stability 10/31/2022 Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/orgatec-office-work-development-homely-new-work-homeoffice-stylepark) [ORGATEC 2018 The perfect office 11/1/2018 Vitra presented working environments by Sevil Peach, Konstantin Grcic and Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby at Orgatec 2018. What is the idea behind the "Work" concept? Anna Moldenhauer interviewed Jonathan Olivares.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/jonathan-olivares-orgatec-office-vitra) [DESIGN Classy copywriting 7/4/2018 The media company Condé Nast Germany has moved to the Richard Meier Building in Munich after an extensive redesign.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/conde-nast-munich-richard-meier) [DESIGN Ala Kazam! 10/5/2017 Material and magic: Vitra Design Museum in Weil is celebrating the outstanding designer duo of Charles and Ray Eames not just with one, but with no less than four exhibitions.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/review-eames-vitra-museum) [FAIRS & EVENTS A festival of affinities 7/25/2017 Vitra Design Museum is celebrating the 110th anniversary of Charles Eames’ birth with due aplomb: No less than four exhibitions shed light on the different facets to the Eames’ oeuvre.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/an-eames-celebration-vitra-design-museum-stylepark) [FAIRS & EVENTS Hej Copenhagen, Hej Design! 6/2/2017 Scandinavian design is best experienced in Copenhagen. Follow us on our tour through designer studios and showrooms at 3 Days of Design, the most vibrant design festival in the north.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/3-days-of-design-copenhagen-2017) [SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 Your daily dose from Salone del Mobile 2017 4/4/2017 You did not make it to the Salone del Mobile? Don't worry! Stylepark delivers you fresh impressions from the design hotspots in Milan every day.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/daily-update-from-salone-del-mobile-2017) [FAIRS & EVENTS The Donkey in the System 4/20/2016 Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-donkey-in-the-system) [DESIGN Sit down on the goat 11/25/2015 Leather, hide or brocade – fashion is reveling in high-grade materials and elaborate textures. The furniture design at times remains restrained.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sit-down-on-the-goat) [DESIGN On your seats, get set, go 9/6/2015 Design classics have long since conquered children’s rooms. But they have to be colorful. Irrespective of whether chairs and tables for adults have simply been miniaturized or unique children’s room classics created – you’ll find the most important items here.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-your-seats-get-set-go) [DESIGN Girard meets Eames 7/23/2015 Alexander Girard and Charles Eames shared a close friendship, which proved highly productive in creative terms. Works by both designers can now be found in Vitra’s “Home Complements” – and this reunion is anything but a chance encounter.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/girard-meets-eames) [DESIGN Pretty hot-wired 7/7/2015 They were all the rage in the 1950s, now they are back again: metal-wire structures, both stable and delicate in appearance. We have picked out several large and small tables for you.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pretty-hot-wired) [DESIGN Four legs and a seat shell 6/13/2015 Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/four-legs-and-a-seat-shell) [FAIRS & EVENTS Furniture Suspense 1/22/2015 Flying elephant stools, Chinese felt dragons and upholstered elevated chairs: For the third time, the imm cologne’s “Featured Editions”curated by Stylepark are captivating visitors.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/furniture-suspense) [FAIRS & EVENTS Buffaloes in the Swiss underground 11/4/2014 Flying parquet floorboards, a Colombian high-speed knitter and wooden buffaloes peacefully grazing: At the 15th Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland, the designers and manufacturers once again opted for unusual means to stage their products.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/buffaloes-in-the-swiss-underground) [FAIRS & EVENTS I like the Original 1/31/2014 Imm cologne attract creative minds from all over the world – this time they included Marc Bailly, interior architect straight from New York. He joined Robert Volhard, Stylepark MD, for a tour of the Cologne interiors fair to find out all about innovative design this side of the Great Pond.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/i-like-the-original) [FAIRS & EVENTS Colorful dishes, perfectly seasoned 1/20/2014 Furniture design in a swirl of colors: At the imm cologne designers and manufacturers have dipped deep into pots of color and mixed up any number of great tones. We checked out what worlds of color are competing with each other.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/colorful-dishes-perfectly-seasoned) [MAGAZINE On Billy Wilder’s set: The things the Eames trained their lenses on 4/3/2013 Did you know that Charles Eames took photos on his friend Billy Wilder’s movie sets? A current exhibition reveals his photographic work – and much more besides.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-billy-wilders-set-the-things-the-eames-trained-their-lenses-on) [MAGAZINE A chair of distinction 2/8/2013 Plastic Chairs for all! How one 1950s chair design became an expression of the desire for individuality that shapes our times.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-chair-of-distinction) [MAGAZINE How the gods live 2/8/2011 Even the architecture gods of classical Modernism are only people, each in his own way. This can be seen -- and smelled - from the houses they lived in. A visit to the Eames House near Los Angeles and to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/how-the-gods-live) [MAGAZINE Credit where credit’s due 12/12/2010 Weighing in at eight hundred pages in length, "The Story of Eames Furniture" indeed makes a promising impression. A variety of historical images showing Charles and Ray Eames, the Eames Office itself as well as legendary products such as the Lounge Chair, are a feast for the reader's eyes. Unfortunately, however, in places the book's content appears to be strongly influenced by the authors' subjective perspective on design history.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/credit-where-credits-due) [MAGAZINE Like a nap? 11/27/2010 In some countries a midday snooze is part of everyday culture, in others it is treated with disdain. Science has long since proven that a noon nap boosts a person's performance during the rest of the day. Hardly surprising then that there's a broad array of representative recliners and napping chairs available for rest areas in offices.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/like-a-nap) [MAGAZINE Lights, Camera, Action, Love 11/15/2009 The films of Charles and Ray Eames tell with their elegantly composed images the story of special beauty, of the beauty of the optimistic look at the simplest of things.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lights-camera-action-love) [MAGAZINE The friendly Modern Age - a book review 6/25/2008 More than a company history: “Projekt Vitra 1957-2007” - "Projekt Vitra" is the self-representation of a successful company. And yet the book, with its intelligent essays, with its products arranged like families for a wedding photo, with historical and contemporary pictures and documents, is more than a corporate history.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-friendly-modern-age-a-book-review) [MAGAZINE My home by Vitra 9/2/2007 Arguably, the idea that your own home might provide a castle, warding off the outside world, was a sentimental illusion even before the invention of WLAN. Let's face it, since time immemorial the interior has in addition to ornamental individualism been the private reversal of zeitgeist, economic development and technical invention.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/my-home-by-vitra)