Charles and Ray Eames met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Michigan, in 1940. She was Ray Kaiser then, and there on an industrial-design fellowship. Charles was there to study architecture. He entered a Museum of Modern Art furniture competition. His quest: how to mold a chair out of a single sheet of plywood. He won the competition, but the experiment failed—the chair wasn’t functional. Ray stepped in to help. The pair married a few months later, in 1941. For almost four decades, they designed houses and furniture together, ever inventive with wood and textiles, until Charles’s death in 1978. This show zooms in on the duo’s last decade. —Elena Clavarino