THE design company best known for its iconic chairs has released a collection of pre-fab houses inspired by the creators’ 1970s LA home.
The company is best known for its iconic seat and ottoman that was introduced in 1956, titled the Eames Lounge Chair.
But the American design firm the Eames Foundation also designed one of the world’s hippest prefab homes.
Now the modernist property has been reimagined and built right here in Spain.
The Eames Pavilion System has just been unveiled during Milan Design Week, a move that has revived the pioneering vision of Charles and Ray Eames.
Nearly 80 years after developing the concept in LA, the Eames Foundation has partnered with Spanish furniture company Kettal to turn the idea into a customisable prefab housing system.
The new system was crafted in Kettal’s workshop in Tarragona.
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The company has become well known around Spain for its recent eco-friendly furniture and was recently behind projects at the stunning Four Seasons Formentor hotel, in Mallorca, Camping Mar restaurant, in Barcelona, and Skyscanner’s headquarters in London.
The new system is based on Eames’ 1960s Pacific Palisades home, broken into a structure for living and for studio space.
It was within this box-like house they came up with the idea for the famous Eames Lounge chair.
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The structure uses a kit-style system of steel frames, glass panels and interchangeable components to adapt into the ideal home from a compact 16sqm studio to a fully equipped, two-story home.
Unlike traditional prefab housing, the design is efficient and combines colourful geometric layouts with bright, open spaces intended to evolve for each person’s method of modern living.
After being constructed in Spain, the buildings were dismantled and then built up again in Milan for display during this year’s Design Week.
The Eames House exhibition allowed visitors to walk through a full two-story replica of the couple’s plan.
Prices begin around €45,000 for smaller indoor configurations with larger outdoor two-story versions costing around €246,000.
‘It works if someone from the Spanish countryside and someone in a city in Japan can both see themselves living in one,’ insisted Demetrios Eames, the designers’ grandson.
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