either as a domestic artefact or as one destined for an office or a recep-
tion area in an office building.^9 All the furniture pieces that Eames
created through the 1940 s and ’ 50 s displayed the same schizophrenia. His
aluminium group furniture pieces of 1958 , for example, originally created
for Alexander Girard, who had wanted some lightweight pieces to use
both within and outside a house he was building in Ohio, were quickly
developed for use in a wide range of public spaces.^10
While Eames worked in the context of mass production and
defined his furniture designs as technical achievements first and fore-190 most, he was also fully aware of the significance of the interior settings
Charles Eames’s Tandem Sling Seating in Washington (later Dulles) International
Airport, Virginia, 1962.