A new California museum is a beautiful and complicated ode to the Eameses
As the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity takes shape, its founding team celebrates its connection to the philosophies of the world’s most famous design couple—and also addresses the shadow hanging over its funding for the first time.
When the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity released renderings of its new museum last week, it aimed to show how a museum campus could encapsulate the legacy of the 20th century’s most famous design couple, Charles and Ray Eames. The architectural project—helmed by museum design heavyweight Herzog & de Meuron, along with local firm EHDD and landscape architecture firm Field Operations—is meant to be more a celebration of the Eameses’ philosophies and ideas than an Eames theme park.
