The furniture included five chairs, two sofas and a center tablemade of laminated wood. That same year Charles and Ray married and moved to Los Angeles, where they collaborated with the editor of the prestigious magazine Arts & Architecture, who promoted and published the celebrities Case Study Houses. These homes defined a new way of living and building in California. These were prefabricated steel structures, with large windows and terraces to enjoy the sun and landscape.
In 1945 The Eames designed house No. 8 (for them) and No. 9 for John Entenzathe director of the magazine.
A year later his talent was recognized with an exhibition in the Modern Art Museum in New York. In 1949 they designed the furniture store of Herman Millerin Los Angeles, since then the firm represents and manufactures its designs. His research on new techniques and materials produced the fiberglass chairs series with metallic wire base, and those designed only with wire mesh (1950-1951). All that experience was specified in The extraordinary design of the Lounge Chair (1956)built on a pedestal and sustained on a five -supported molding star.
This armchair has become an iconand currently it is not only stellar piece in museums, but continues to provide comfort and elegance inside around the world. The solution of your pedestal has been repeated in virtually all contemporary chairs for offices
The Eames furniture design evolved Incorporating the technology of cast aluminum in chairs, in addition to its “in tandem” concept: five online seats, with only two supports (1953-1958). These were installed in the Washington and Chicago airports, and later were adopted in various airports and offices waiting rooms.
A new turn in its development as designers was its exhibition «Mathematica: a World of Numbers … and Beyond» In California Museum of Science and Industry, in Los Angeles (1961), which was the beginning of the transformation of museography. In this area, its most important success was the IBM pavilion at the New York World Fair (1964). With all justice, for the quality of their designs and the impressive variety of their works, Charles and Ray Eames They are an essential reference in the evolution of modern design.