Odette: Terroir to Table, Heart to Plate

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"There are few houses in the history of modern architecture that continue to reward repeated visits in the way the Eames House does," Norman Foster writes in our new book The Eames Houses: Charles and Ray Eames Residential Architecture.

Foster first encountered the house, (Case Study House #8—home to Charles and Ray Eames from late 1949 until the end of their lives) in the early 1960s, when he was a young architect, traveling through the United States after completing his studies at Yale.

The recently graduated young man was eager to see firsthand the buildings reshaping architectural thinking. Returning more than sixty years later and seeing the care with which it is now preserved, Foster was struck again by its extraordinary clarity and generosity.