Home is where the heart is — and home is where the art is.
The famed married industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames were respected for their work on furniture — but the Eames House in Los Angeles, which served as their former home and studio, was one of the few residences they ever completed.
Now, according to an Eames Office release and a report in CNN, fans of that adaptable-use style — which is marked by wooden tones, black beams and prominent color-blocked panels — are one step closer to incorporating it into their own lives.
The Eames Office has announced the made-to-order Eames Pavilion System, a prefab kit that lets any buyer assemble their own Eames-style homes — or exhibition spaces, accessory dwelling units, stores or offices, as the uses are flexible. The look, though not the exact Eames House in California — which sustained smoke damage in 2025 due to the Palisades Fires and underwent months of restoration — greatly resembles the architects’ principles.
Charles and Ray in the Eames House living room, 1958. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.
One-story Eames Pavilion, 2026. Yosigo, Rocafort, courtesy of Kettal, 2025.
An early 1950s photograph of the Eames House, initially intended for
the film House: After Five Years of Living. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.
Single-story designs will be ready to purchase come fall, while double-story ones will be available to purchase at a later time. They’ll be built by the Spanish design brand Kettal and people in more than 80 countries worldwide will be able to get them. The starting cost: some $260 per square foot, which means an average-size 2,000-square-foot prefab structure would run $518,000. (Visitors at the Triennale di Milano in April and May will be able to walk through one- and two-story examples.)
“For many years, people have thought of the Eames House as a kind of singularity,” the architects’ grandson, Eames Demetrios, told CNN. Demetrios and Eckart Maise, former chief design officer for the Swiss furniture company Vitra, had long aimed to bring the couple’s aesthetic into prefab designs.
“With research, we’ve really proven that they were always thinking about this idea of a system,” Demetrios told the outlet. “In a way, the Eames House is a prototype.”
Indeed, the Eames House was part of the architects’ Case Study project — a method for contemporary family living in the wake of World War II.
The ground floor of the Eames Pavilion, with wall covering mirroring the tallowwood wall of the Eames House, 2026. Yosigo, Rocafort, courtesy of Kettal, 2025.
View into the double-height space of the Eames Pavilion prototype, 2026. Yosigo, Rocafort, courtesy of Kettal, 2025.
West facade of the Entenza House with hourglass emblem and kitchen entrance covered by canopy. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved.
The prefab Pavilion System brings it through to today, by additionally incorporating elements from structures such as the next-door Entenza House and the open-plan Shelter House concept. Never built, that latter single-story study, which the couple referred to as the “supermarket house,” was meant to come at little cost.
“Together, these projects articulate an architectural logic that the Eames Pavilion System condenses into a modular construction kit: a rational grid, a small footprint with maximum volume and a structure capable of interior flexibility and long-term adaptability,” according to the release. “The system is a living expression of the Eameses’ belief that design should respond gracefully and intelligently to the way people live and work.”
The prefab pavilions will have interchangeable roof types, wooden accents, bold black beams and options to customize the exteriors with color-blocked paneling and windows, to name some options. The goal is to allow for many configurations no matter the kit purchased.
“They were always interested in this multiplication aspect — how can this effort be transformed?” Demetrios told CNN. “They wanted to universalize. If you look at all the Eames’ work, you keep coming across that idea. So, this is magic for us.”
