from HOUSE OF SCIENCE, a film introduction to the Seattle World's Fair Science Exhibition, 1962

THE integration of the arts and sciences is also evidenced in Eames' exhibits. The Seattle exhibit of '62 was a multi-image, partially animated view of science and how it got that way. In 1965 Eames prepared a memorial exhibit of Nehru, his life and his India, including the problems of technology. He changes even a pack of cards into a design problem: his House of Cards Picture Deck is made up of beautifully patterned photos that have slits so that one can build a house of herbs and spices, spools of thread, Victorian English pill boxes or Chinese baby firecrackers. Charles and Ray Eames restore order to their world with their problem solving.

" It is in preparing the problem for solution in the necessary steps of simplification that we often gain the richest rewards. "

(THINK, IBM exhibit at New York World's Fair, 1965)

Visiting with Charles Eames evokes a kaleidoscope of images rather than words: he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver- whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for the new IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair.

Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office), is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect. Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Mies van der Rohes' Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator.