Ray Eames

Education

• Bennett Women's College, Millbrook, NY (1933)
• Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Years of practice

Major projects

• Bridge house (Eames-Saarinen) (1945)
• Entenza House (1949)
• Eames House, Pacific Palisades, CA (1949)
• Max De Pree House (1954)
• Eames Chair
• Eames Ottoman

Awards, honors and press

• Organic Furniture Competition, Museum of Modern Art, 1940
• Emmy Award, (Graphics), “The Fabulous Fifties,” 1960
• Kaufmann International Design Award, 1961
• 25 Year American Institute of Architects Award, 1977
• Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, Harvard, 1971
• Queen’s Gold Medal for Architecture, 1979
• Named “Most Influential Designer of the 20th Century,” WORLDESIGN ’85, Industrial Designers Society of America, 1985
• The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, Traveling Exhibition, Library of Congress, 1999
• Curbed, 2011
• Film: Eames: The Architect and the Painter
• Film: The Films of Charles & Ray Eames

Location of architect’s archive

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