Eames Case Study No. 8 House Museum (Los Angeles, California)

 residence, modernism, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1949_construction, historic landmark, Modern (architecture), U.S. National Historic Landmark

Case Study House No.8, the Eames House, was one of 25 homes built as part of The Case Study House Program of Arts & Architecture magazine. Each home was to be built for a hypothetical client, taking into considerations his particular housing needs. Charles and Ray Eames proposed that the home they designed would be for a "hypothetical" married couple who were basically apartment dwellers working in design and graphic arts, and who wanted a home that would make no demands for itself, but would, instead serve as a background for "life in work," with a natural setting as a "shock absorber."

The first plan of this site-specific home, known as the Bridge House, was designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1945. It would be of off-the-shelf parts ordered from catalogues. The war effort caused a shortage in materials delivery, and the steel did not arrive until late 1948. By then Mr. and Mrs.Eames felt that the site required a different solution, to build a house with maximized volume, with the same elements, and not ruining the existing meadow.

Using the same off-the-shelf parts, but ordering one extra steel beam, Charles and Ray re-configured the House. Charles and Ray moved into the House on Christmas Eve, 1949, and lived here for the rest of their lives. The House has become an iconographic structure visited by people from around the world. In the words of Case Study House founder, John Entenza, the Eames House "represented an attempt to state an idea rather than a fixed architectural pattern".

Architects, students, and others with an interest in post-war California design can arrange a visit to the house by contacting the Eames Foundation. It is currently the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #381. In 2008, the US Postal Service issues a set of 16 stamps honoring the husband & wife design team Charles + Ray Eames, including one of the famous Eames House.

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