# Eames Office **Domain:** Design Practice / Film / Exhibition **Doc Type:** Institution and Studio Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[IBM]], [[Mathematica]], [[Powers of Ten]], [[IBM Pavilion]] --- ## Definition The **Eames Office** was the Los Angeles design studio through which Charles and Ray Eames and their collaborators produced furniture, films, exhibitions, graphics, architecture and educational environments. ## Corpus Function The Office is important as a model of interdisciplinary production. It treated a chair, a film and a corporate exhibition as versions of the same problem: how to organize constraints and information so that a person can enter a complex relation without losing delight or orientation. For [[IBM]], the studio created [[Mathematica]] and the experience design of the [[IBM Pavilion]]. [[Powers of Ten]] made scalar nesting cinematic. In [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]], these works form a design lineage for making substrate transition cognitively and bodily habitable. ## Key Insight **The Eames Office operated as a translation layer between systems institutions and human-scale experience.** ## Sources / Provenance - Eames Office: https://www.eamesoffice.com/ - Eames Office, _Mathematica_: https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/mathematica/