Ray Eames

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Education

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

Years of practice

1940–1988

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

The Library of Congress

Related websites


View Ray Eames‘s profile on the Pioneering Women website.