LUCIA EAMES (1930–2014)

The Los Angeles Times’ David Colker reports that Lucia Eames has passed away. A designer in her own right, Eames also devoted the last quarter decade of her life to preserving the legacy of one of the most influential design duos in the last century: Charles and Ray Eames, her father and stepmother. In particular, Lucia Eames created a foundation that maintained the two-story Eames House and the furnishings within it—including 1,800 objects from the house’s living room alone, which were loaned to LACMA for its “California Design” show in 2011. Her own works were often steel or bronze, with geometric cut patterns. Particularly well known was her Wind Harp, 1967, a steel tower topped with an Aeolian harp that she created with her second husband, which stands in south San Francisco.