Eames Foundation — Attraction in Los Angeles

Magical afternoon exploring the home of Charles and Ray Eames, Case Study House #8, perched above the Pacific on a 1.5 acre lot in the Palisades. Great background and story on their life and design process for this house. Note: you can’t go into the house, it is an exterior tour only. Also to protect the fragility of the interior, you can’t take pictures of the interior, but they do open the door to let you look inside the 1500 sq ft home, each item exactly where Charles and Ray placed them when living there. I loved our 1.5 hours there, the Eames Foundation could even provide more curation, our tour guide was very knowledgeable but was very soft spoken. Maybe a wireless mic?

There is a bathroom and limited seating (two chairs) and walking on some uneven gravel paths without handrails (if you are or are coming with someone older or disabled, just know it is not...

The Eames Foundation is doing a great job at preserving and sharing this lovely Eames house. What a gem!

To visit the house you must make reservations at least 2 days in advance. (Check their website!) Once your reservation is confirmed you'll receive information about parking which is just a short walk away.

They offer $10 self-guided tours of the exterior, which is what I've done. Many of the walls are glass so you can see most of the downstairs living spaces. The staff onsite are so knowledgeable and helpful, and they will open doors to the house so you can get better peeks of the inside! You cannot see the bedrooms or bathrooms. Interior guided tours are available but are...

Great 90min tour. We learned a lot about the house and the materials used to built it. It's truly a beautiful site, right on a meadow by the ocean, so you can see why they loved it. Beautifully designed and furnished, as you can imagine. The tour was about 45min of history and 45min of walking around. Don't be turned off by their terribly unfriendly website and emails, and the seemingly huge number of rules. They're pretty strict but if you get tickets ahead of time and know where to park, it's totally fine. They do have a fancy portable bathroom, in case you drove a while to get there. Just hope the weather holds up because there's truly no changing dates or cancelling...