"An Eames Anthology collects for the first time the writings of the esteemed American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames, illuminating their marriage and professional partnership of fifty years. More than 120 primary-source documents and 200 illustrations highlight iconic projects such as the Case Study Houses and the molded plywood chair, as well as their work for major corporations as both designers (Herman Miller, Vitra) and consultants (IBM, Polaroid). Previously unpublished materials appear alongside published writings by and about the Eameses and their work, lending new insight into their creative process. Correspondence with such luminaries as Richard Neutra and Eero Saarinen provides a personal glimpse into the advance of modernity in mid-century America"--

Foreword / Eames Demetrios -- Acknowledgments / Daniel Ostroff -- Introduction / Daniel Ostroff -- Part 1: 1941-1949. "Design today" : "Organic design" ; Covers for California arts & architecture, 1942 ; Covers for California arts & architecture, 1943 ; "City Hall" ; "Line and color" ; "A new emergency transport splint of plyformed wood" ; Covers for Arts & architecture, 1944 ; Mass-produced housing ; "No man is an illand" ; "Case study houses 8 and 9" (1945) ; Evans Molded Plywood Products ; Covers for Arts & architecture, 1947 ; "Mies van der Rohe" ; "Esthetic qualities in architecture" ; "We live in one of the newest houses in California" ; "Case study houses 8 and 9" (1948) ; USC lecture on design ; Advice for students ; Richard Neutra apartments : correspondence ; "Designer Charles Eames tests prize-winning furniture in his own home" ; "Case study house for 1949" ; Case study houses : Truscon Steel Products -- Part 2: 1950-1959. "Case study house 9" (1950) ; Case study houses : correspondence ; Molded plastic chairs ; Eames storage units ; Designs for kites ; "Design today" : Arboretum speech ; Japanese tea house : correspondence ; "The relation of artist to industry" ; "Design, designer, industry" ; Packaging for soap : correspondence ; Upholstered wire chairs : correspondence ; AIA 1952 speech ; "Japanese architecture and the west" ; Royalties for furniture designers : correspondence ; Chair design process ; MGM's executive suite : correspondence ; Architecture 1 and 2, University of California, Berkeley ; Washington University School of Architecture : correspondence ; How the chairs are made : correspondence ; Upholstery for furniture : correspondence ; Buying a new Ford : correspondence ; "A communications primer" : correspondence ; Visit to Germany : exchange program of the German government, 1954/55 ; Compact sofa ; Lounge chair and ottoman ; Omnibus ; Toy orthopter : correspondence ; "Toccata for toy trains" : correspondence and narration ; Fine art and function : correspondence ; Staffing the Eames office : correspondence ; Art education in public schools ; "The making of a craftsman" ; Stephens Trusonic speakers ; "St. Louis Train Station 1957" ; Furnishing a home ; Aluminum group ; "The India report" ; "Architecture in miniature" ; The solar toy ; Glimpses of the U.S.A. : correspondence ; Industrial arts education : correspondence ; Royal Institute of British Architects 1959 Annual Discourse

Part 3: 1960-1969. "A prediction: less self-expression for the designer" ; Architects and science : letter to Reyner Banham from Charles Eames ; Making good designs better ; "The design of mathematics" (some notes about doing a mathematics exhibition) ; What must a drumstick do? : correspondence ; Design education : correspondence ; "Architecture and science" : ICA speech ; "A visit with Charles Eames" ; Eames contract storage ; U.S. State Department ; "Chairs, fairs, and films" ; Films on architecture : correspondence ; "Evolution of a design" : Eames tandem seating ; Industry Film Producers Association speech ; "Design : its freedoms and its restraints" ; Handwritten notes on design ; Graphex speech : the 1964-65 New York World's Fair ; A twenty-five-year appraisal ; Immaculate Heart ; "Excellence" ; Gio Ponti ; "Art and science" speech ; 100 words on symptoms of creativity ; "The Eames design" : Public Broadcast Laboratory ; "The Eames design" : correspondence ; "Eames" : an interview ; "Sitting back with Charles Eames" : Eames chaise ; National Aquarium : correspondence ; "What is design?" : an exhibition at the Louvre ; Puerto Rico Advisory Council on Natural Resources : correspondence ; "Poetry of ideas : the films of Charles Eames" ; MIT report -- Part 4: 1970-1979. Eames to Fehlbaum : correspondence ; Eero Saarinen's trick ; "Banana leaf" parable ; "Goods" ; "General Motors revisited" ; "Renaissance man" ; "Q & A : Charles Eames" ; "Eames on Eames" ; "Disciplines of the circus" ; "The language of vision : the nuts and bolts" ; Design process at Herman Miller ; An Eames celebration : the several worlds of Charles and Ray Eames ; "Innovator in Earth Shoes" ; Arts, education, and the Americas ; Library of Congress : correspondence ; Eero Saarinen ; "Education as a found object" ; "A conversation with Charles Eames" ; St. Louis Oral History Project : interview with Charles Eames ; Notes on "Powers of ten" ; U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange -- Part 5: 1980-1986. "Warehouse full of ideas" ; Letter to Ronald Reagan ; Note to Rolf Fehlbaum ; From Business as unusual