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Charles and Ray Eames

The latest news, reviews and comment on the designers Charles and Ray Eames

April 2017

  • Robin and Lucienne Day at an exhibition of their work at the Barbican entitled ‘Pioneers of Contemporary Design’

    Flotillas, fabrics and dandelion clocks: how designer Lucienne Day brought Britain hope

    With their vibrant echoes of Miró and Kandinsky, the pioneering female designer’s patterns came to represent the optimism of postwar Britain – and they are still bubbling with life in her centenary yearar

December 2015

  • The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888, Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

    Best culture 2015
    Dancing petals and a Banksy spectacular: readers' favourite art shows of 2015

    Ai Weiwei enthralled you, the Victorians made you weep, and the Eameses took the chair. Here are your best-loved exhibitions of the year

October 2015

  • Eames House courtyard.

    Architecture and design blog
    Party with the Eameses! Inside the modernist masters' riotous home

    Charlie Chaplin and Billy Wilder used to party with Charles and Ray Eames at their house in Los Angeles – and play guinea pigs to their latest chair designs. Step inside the Eames House, a divine shrine unchanged since their deaths
  • Charles

    The World of Charles and Ray Eames review – prodigious and abundant talent

    No one delivered style and genius quite like designers Charles and Ray Eames
    • Open house with Charles and Ray

    • The World of Charles and Ray Eames - in pictures

    • The cosmic space odyssey of Charles and Ray Eames

August 2012

  • Eames: The Architect and the Painter, film

    Eames: The Architect & the Painter – review

  • Eames: The Architect and the Painter

    Eames: The Architect and the Painter – review

July 2012

  • Eames Hang-It-All

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Eames designs - in pictures

    Eames: the Architect and the Painter, a documentary about Charles and Ray Eames, is released on 3 August

October 2010

  • Eames lounge chair and ottoman

    Justin McGuirk on design
    There's no I in Eames

    A book reveals that the famous 20th-century furniture designers' work was very much a team effort

October 2007

  • Art & design blog
    Celebrating the Eames vision

    They were certainly ahead of their time, but were Charles and Ray Eames the pioneers of sustainable architecture?

August 2002

  • Pull back and focus

    The Eames chair is famously comfortable, but the Eameses' films are more disconcerting. Jonathan Glancey enters the designers' upside-down world.

February 2002

  • Generation games

    They may have changed the way we sat, but to their grandson they were just 'Charlie and Ray'. Eames Demetrios takes Tamsin Blanchard on a unique behind-the-scenes tour of their work.

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