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    Side view of the Eames ES106 Soft Pad Chaise Lounge with several black leather cushions on a cast aluminum frame.

    ES106 Eames Chaise

    Fashion drawing of ink on paper by Ray Eames of a sleeveless gown with a colorful geometric shaped pattern.

    Fashion Drawing: Party Dress

    Front angled view of the stackable Eames Child’s Stool in birch plywood.

    Child’s Stool

    Front view of a stylized colorful bird kite with outstretched wings and legs that is made of paper, ink, string, and bamboo.

    Bird Kite with Legs

    Front view of a late 19th century wooden music box with colorful lacquered art and black accents.

    Music Box

    Christmas card drawn by Charles Eames for family and friends features an aerial map of St. Louis including many landmarks.

    Christmas Card with Bird’s-Eye View of St. Louis

    Front view of an Eames PSC-06, Leather Upholstered Pivoting Side Chair with an aluminum base, casters, and steel column.

    PSC-06, Pivoting Side Chair, Upholstered

    Side view of a metal and wood Victorian-style tricycle with large spoked wheels and a carriage seat.

    Velocipede Tricycle

    Side angled view of a wooden top painted with a red spiral that was collected by the Eameses.

    Red and Green Top

    Front view of a colorful 25” x 30” abstract painting by Ray Eames.

    Untitled, 1938

    Side view of toy steam boat with many cardboard layers that can be fanned out to show more detail of the boat’s interior.

    Toy Steam Boat

    Top-down view of a stylized goldfish kite made from paper, ink, string, and bamboo, that was collected by the Eameses.

    Goldfish Kite

    Eames Aluminum Group spreader wood prototype which has a slight curve and is very simple with small bends on either side.

    Carved Spreader 1

    Rebus Christmas card by Charle Eames, using a combination of pictures and individual letters to represent words and phrases.

    Rebus Christmas Card

    Front view of a study for the Eames Side Shell in brown paper created by Ray and Charles Eames.

    Paper Study for Side Shell

    Angled top view of a stone construction kit called “Richter’s Anchor Blocks” in a wooden box with an image of a house.

    Richter’s Anchor Blocks

    Front view of an Eames Smooth Fiberglass Side Shell in a tan color.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Front view of the Eames Aluminum Group 682 Lounge Chair with Arms upholstered in black Naugahyde with a steel base.

    682 Lounge Chair with Arms

    Front view of the Eames stackable DSS SIde Shell chair made of fiberglass with a metal base.

    DSS Stacking Side Chair

    Front view of an Eames Fiberglass Side Shell color-test sample in Aqua Blue.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    “Christmas Greetings from the Chomeaux” Christmas Card

    Industrie und Handwerk Schaffen neues Hausgerät in USA 1951 Catalog cover featuring drawings by artist Saul Steinberg.

    Industrie und Handwerk Schaffen neues Hausgerät in USA Catalog

    Front view of an etching of Notre-Dame made from a sketch by Charles Eames.

    Etching of Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, France

    Front view of a colorful shadow puppet from India made from wood, paper and paint that was collected by the Eameses.

    Ravana Shadow Puppet

    Side view of an Eames Leather Upholstered Wire Chair Prototype with an aluminum base and steel column.

    Upholstered Wire Chair Prototype

    Front view of a yellow Eames Fiberglass Side Shell.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Portrait of a drawing of a woman by Saul Steinberg projected onto his wife Hedda Sterne’s face with an Eames The Toy.

    Photograph of Steinberg Drawing Projected onto Hedda Sterne with The Toy in Background

    April 1950 Vogue magazine cover with a model in a black dress. The issue featured a story with a drawing by Saul Steinberg.

    “The Unembarrassed Mind,” Vogue Magazine

    Front view of a Handmade Fiberglass Study for Side Shell designed by Ray and Charles Eames.

    Handmade Fiberglass Study for Side Shell

    Front view of an Eames Fiberglass Side Shell color test sample in navy blue.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    A fake diploma created by artist Saul Steinberg for Charles Eames with a blank orange seal and calligraphy that is illegible.

    Diploma for Charles Eames

    Side view of a painted Swiss wood and brass top in green that Ray and Charles Eames collected.

    Swiss Top

    Front view of a tan Handmade Fiberglass Study for an Eames Side Shell from 1951.

    Handmade Fiberglass Study for Side Shell

    Top down view of a colorful butterfly kite with tassels made from paper, ink, string, and bamboo.

    Butterfly Kite

    Side view of a white papier-mache horse head mask that is painted white and brown.

    White Horse Mask

    Front view of the light blue gray Eames Fiberglass shell sample.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Top down view of the bottom of a CTM Eames table with three steel legs. The top is birch plywood with aniline dye.

    Three-Legged CTM (Coffee Table Metal)

    Front view of an Eames LKR-1 Naugahyde Upholstered Wire Chair.

    LKR-1 Upholstered Wire Chair

    EA216 Swivel Lounge Armchair

    Side view of the Eames EC127 Upholstered chair with checkered textile by Alexander Gerard and a metal base.

    EC127 Upholstered Chair

    Front view of the Eames DSX-1 Fiberglass Upholstered Side Chair in Raw Umber Light Naugahyde with a metal base.

    DSX-1 Side Chair

    Front view of an Eames Fiberglass Side Shell color test sample in yellow dark.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Front view of a red, green, and yellow metal balance toy with an acrobat on a ladder holding a large arc for balance.

    Balance Toy

    Front view of the Eames EC434 Adjustable Tilt-Swivel Armchair with black Naugahyde back and Hopsak fabric seat upholstery.

    EC434 Adjustable Tilt-Swivel Armchair

    Front view of a 1950 Flair magazine cover with a green background, stylized typography, and art by Federico Pallavicini.

    “The City,” Flair Magazine

    Top down view of the Chutes and Ladders board game, with a grid of squares in blue and tan and a red border.

    Chutes & Ladders/Red Riding Hood Game

    DSS-TA chair designed by Ray and Charles Eames in red fiberglass with a plywood tablet writing surface and a steel base.

    DSS-TA Tablet-Arm Stacking Side Chair

    Angled side view of an Eames EC431 Side Chair with an aluminum base, casters, steel column, and orange Naugahyde upholstery.

    EC431 Side Chair

    Side view of the Eames EC328 Secretarial Chair with orange fabric upholstery and a black metal base.

    EC328 Secretarial Chair (Fabric)

    Front view of an Eames Aluminum Group desk chair with casters, an aluminum base, and orange Hopsak upholstery.

    EA318 Management Chair

    Front view of an Eames Fiberglass shell test sample for the color crimson with tape on the edges.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Front view of an Eames Fiberglass Side Shell color test sample in a dark red shade.

    Fiberglass Side Shell

    Front view of a stackable Eames Child’s Chair in birch plywood with black aniline dye and a heart cutout in the chair back.

    Child’s Chair

    Front view of an Eames DKR-1 tan leather upholstered wire chair with a steel rod base.

    DKR-1 Upholstered Wire Chair

    Front view of a stackable Eames Child’s Chair in birch plywood with a heart cutout in the chair back.

    Child’s Chair

    Wooden Japanese top with painted concentric circles that was collected by the Eameses.

    Japanese Top

    Postcard from the retailer “Bett’s” featuring an Eames LCM chair, a mid-century table, and several decorative accessories.

    “This is Bett’s” Postcard

    MSX-1 Upholstered Side Chair

    Front view of the Eames 683 Reclining Chair Frame made of aluminum with a steel base.

    683 Reclining Chair Frame

    Front view of the Eames PSCC-4 upholstered fiberglass side chair with casters.

    PSCC-4

    The Eames Collection contains more than 40,000 objects spanning the expansive creative practice of Ray and Charles Eames. Drawn largely from the Eames Office at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, the holdings⁠—which the Eames family asked the Institute to safeguard⁠—include one-of-a-kind design prototype parts and pieces, early examples of their iconic furniture, extensive photographs, correspondence, tools, ephemera, and personal artifacts collected over decades of experimentation, travel, and collaboration. Together, these materials provide the world’s most intimate view into the Eameses’ work, which shaped, and continue to shape, modern design across furniture, architecture, exhibition design, film, and visual communications.

    The Collection exists today because Lucia Eames as the owner and Llisa Demetrios as registrar spent decades caring for and archiving the materials that remained outside institutional archives. Believing Ray and Charles’s iterative process to be as important as their finished work, incredible care has been put into accounting for virtually every piece of material at the closure of the Eames Office in Venice, California. Today, the Eames Institute stewards the Collection through ongoing cataloging, preservation, research, and public engagement, ensuring that this remarkable archive is accessible to current and future generations at the Eames Archives, Eames Ranch, and the Institute’s forthcoming museum, as well as through loans to peer institutions.