To coincide with the firm’s historic 80th anniversary, Eames Office is being celebrated with a retrospective currently taking place at the legendary ISETAN THE SPACE gallery in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward.

The influential duo’s work and simple philosophy are seemingly more relevant than ever, and their contributions to the visual and material culture of the 20th century will be examined in a selling exhibition spanning the entirety of the firm’s eight-decade creative and commercial output.

Divided into three spaces, the exhibition starts with the Eameses' early-40’s breakthrough and extends to their modern-day heirs’ continued collaborations with designers like Reebok, Vitra, and Uniqlo.

The Art & Technology portion centers Charles and Ray’s 1943 plywood sculpture as the linchpin to which a diverse array of creations can trace their origin. Everything from designs for a Navy leg splint during World War II, to their important films, and the abstract paintings that Ray made beginning in the couple’s early days at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, can be seen in its appropriate historical context. As the Office’s current director Eames Demetrios puts it: “Art was the best way to test the technology, and the technology was the best way to make the art.”

Architecture & Interiors then covers the couple’s career-long ambition to streamline the modern residential lifestyle through pioneering explorations into materials like the plywood and molded fiberglass that lead the way to their design for a prefabricated modular house in 1951, an affordable sofa compact in 1954, and the iconic lounge chairs for the American home furnishings company Herman Miller.

Play & Learn finally examines the extraordinary ways in which the studio is branching out currently with a series of projects like their arbor conserving collaboration with Australian heritage brand Globe that keeps alive the spirit of their creativity as seen in their playing card decks, Ravensburger puzzles, and a Solar Do-nothing machine that did… nothing.

A total of 90 pieces of original work will be on display supplemented by archival materials and the text of the exhibition. 80 Years of Design opens to the public today and will remain on view until January 5th.