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Charles Eames

Charles Eames

American, 1907

WA-00026946

De Stijl

Representation

None documented

24

Institutional Exhibitions

129

Works in Collection

227

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ170411 ULAN500029567

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Charles Eames, 1907�1978

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Charles Eames Furniture from the Design Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1973

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Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960–1961

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20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

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Photographs from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

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Good Design: 5th Anniversary

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1955

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Good Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953

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Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953

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De Stijl

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1952–1953

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Good Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1952

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Good Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1951–1952

Field Verification (3 fields)

3 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1671
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Charles Eames was an American designer and filmmaker whose practice spanned furniture, architecture, and exhibition design in the postwar period. Working with his wife Ray, he developed iconic molded plywood and fiberglass chairs that merged industrial production with organic form, establishing a vocabulary for modern domestic space. His experimental films and multimedia installations explored perception and scientific phenomena, while his architectural designs, including the Eames House in Los Angeles, integrated living and working space as a unified laboratory. Eames' work fundamentally shaped American modernism by treating design as a problem-solving discipline that connected craft, technology, and everyday life.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Movement

De Stijl

Medium

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Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum

Canonical record

Artworks (129)

Eames Elephant

2007 · Child's chair

Victoria and Albert Museum

Circles

2000 · Cotton, polyester upholstery

640 × 140 cm (252 × 55 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sofa

1984 · Wood, chrome, and leather

83.8 × 182.9 cm (33 × 72 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Computer Perspective

1972 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

1972 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

Armchair

1971 · Molded polyester, aluminum base, padded naugahyde with vinyl binding, and loose cushion

32 x 26 x 28" (81.3 x 66 x 71.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Fiberglass Chairs: Something of How They Get the Way They Are

The Fiberglass Chairs: Something of How They Get the Way They Are

1970 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

Side Chair (model DCMU)

Side Chair (model DCMU)

1969 · Polyester reinforced with glass fibers, steel tube, Naugahyde with polyurethane foam padding, vinyl, and nylon

Each: 29 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 21 1/2" (74.9 x 49.5 x 54.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Side Chair

1969 · Polished die cast aluminum, black painted tube, tan leather cushions with polyester foam padding, and nylon glides

33 1/2 x 21 x 22" (85.1 x 53.3 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lounge Chair

1969 · Polished die-cast aluminum and leather cushions

Museum of Modern Art

Chaise

1968 · Aluminum and leather

73 × 44.5 × 190.5 cm (28 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 75 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1968 · Aluminum, plasticized fabric, leather, and polyester foam padding

Museum of Modern Art

IBM at the Fair

1965 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

IBM Fair Presentation #2

1963 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

Multiple Seating

1962 · Polished cast aluminum, steel, and foam-padded naugahyde

33 3/4 x 117 x 26" (85.7 x 297.2 x 66.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lounge Chair

1960 · Polished aluminum, leather cushions, foam padding steel, and nylon

34 1/2" h. (87.6 cm) maximum

Museum of Modern Art

Glimpses of the USA

1959 · 16mm film transferred to video

Museum of Modern Art

1958 · Polished die-cast aluminum and fabric

.a (chair): 39 1/4 x 23 x 30" (99.7 x 58.4 x 76.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lounge chair

1958 · Polished aluminum, naugahyde, vinyl foam, and nylon

34 × 24 × 28 1/2" (86.4 × 61 × 72.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Side Chair

1958 · Polished die cast aluminum, painted tube, naugahyde padded with vinyl foam, and nylon glides

33 1/2 x 21 x 22 1/2" (85.1 x 53.3 x 57.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lounge Chair and Ottoman

Lounge Chair and Ottoman

1956 · Rosewood, leather and aluminum

Chair: 83.8 × 85.7 × 81.3 cm (33 × 33 3/4 × 32 in.); Ottoman: 62.9 × 45.1 × 54 cm (24 3/4 × 17 × 21 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lounge Chair and Ottoman

1956 · Molded rosewood, plywood, leather, cast aluminum, rubber shock mounts, and stainless steel glides

.a (chair): 33 x 33 3/4 x 33" (83.8 x 85.7 x 83.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Stacking Side Chair

Stacking Side Chair

1955 · Molded polyester reinforced with glass fibers, zinc-coated steel tube, rubber shock mounts, and nylon glides

Museum of Modern Art

House of Cards (giant size)

1954 · Plastic coated slotted cards

Box: 11 1/2 × 8 × 1 3/8" (29.2 × 20.3 × 3.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

129 published of 224 catalogued · 170 with image

MoMA
105 publishedof 200 catalogued155 img
Art Institute Chicago
11 published11 img
The Met
7 published
Victoria & Albert
4 published4 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 2 sources

Low Side Chair
1946 · MoMA · 1 prov
MoMA·title
Chair
1950 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Chair
1946 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Screen (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Screen (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

7

Movements1

Collections6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

Market

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