Released to children across the country in 1951, The Toy was neatly packaged in a hexagonal tube. Its contents were simple: triangular panels of thick paper, wooden dowels, and colored wire attachments. When speaking about the toy’s early design stages, Charles and Ray made it known that many of the Eames Office’s projects were designed for or inspired by a particular friend, and often translated into a product for the masses. Of The Toy, Charles once said, “I suppose we were thinking of Bucky Fuller.”

Read more about this connection in our latest #EamesArchives blog: www.eamesoffice.com/blog/eames-archives-thinking-of-bucky-and-the-toy

Eames Archives: An Image as an Idea is a blog series written by Eames Office Photography Archivist, Kelsey Rose Williams, with the intention of sharing rarely-viewed images from the Eames Office archive and the untold narratives attached to them.