Built in 1949, this house in Pacific Palisades was designed by the designers Charles and Ray Eames for themselves. It was Case Study House No. 8, part of a program by Arts & Architecture magazine that commissioned model modern homes after World War II.
The Eameses first sketched a raised, L-shaped house with Eero Saarinen, then redesigned it as two simple pavilions, a home and a studio, set into a hillside beside a meadow and a row of trees. The steel frame went up in a day and a half. Its 17-foot-tall walls are a steel grid filled with glass and panels in different materials and colors.
Charles and Ray lived and worked here for the rest of their lives, and their furniture, toys and collections remain arranged as they left them. Visitors have toured the grounds since the 2000s, and the studio's interior opened to the public in 2025.
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