Charles and Ray Eames were central figures in American design in the forties and fifties, creating seminal designs for furniture, films and multi-media exhibitions. This year-long course explores their work in the context of other designers and design trends of their time, and it creates an exhibition devoted to the Eameses, for installation in the Arthur Ross Gallery. Classes meet for a three-hour session approximately every other week, interspersed with independent research in Philadelphia and in the Eames Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington (holding over 130,000 documents and some 750,000 photographs).