Una tarde de té en la Casa Eames

In 2012, a tea ceremony was held at the Charles and Ray Eames House, attended by a shy number of guests. The event was intended to recall another that had taken place in the same space sixty years ago, when the Eameses had received distinguished guests such as Charlie Chaplin and Isamu Noguchi. On both occasions, the Eameses’ ‘select and arrange’ aesthetics, together with the artistic interventions of their guests, created a bare scenography, rather Westernised, that served as the basis for the celebration. These events, as well as the elements and guests who gathered there, represent but a small sample of Eames’ link with Japanese design and architecture, and particularly the embodiment of some common ideals manifested in their own iconic Californian home, becoming essential chapters in the unique story of this building.