The personal house of the Eames couple in Santa Monica

One of the first steps during my visit to California led to the family home of the Eames couple. Most people know the mentioned couple primarily as furniture designers. Their unconventional use of plywood, processing of aluminum, and mainly as the authors of “the most famous chair of the 20th century” (while flipping through the March issue of A+U dedicated to the housing of the architects themselves, I found the mentioned chair in five houses). The Eames also put similar effort into film documentaries, where they garnered many awards. Their architectural work remains overshadowed. In mid-last month, it marked a hundred years since the birth of Charles Eames. A memorial picnic was held at his home in Pacific Palisades for two hundred of his descendants, friends, and other supporters. Among them was also David A. Keeps from the Los Angeles Times, who described in exhaustive detail the history of the house and captured the atmosphere of how the colorful cube was experienced during her childhood by guide Lucia, Eames's only daughter, on a June day. Link>