Eames Office
The office of designers Charles and Ray Eames was located at 901 Washington Boulevard (now Abbot Kinney Boulevard) in Venice from 1943 to 1988. Charles Brittin worked at the Eames Office as a photographer from 1963 to 1970, spending hours in the darkroom on projects related both to the studio and to his work documenting civil rights protests in the sixties. As Brittin recalled in 2006: “I had my own projects. I didn’t devote myself 100 percent to them, even though a lot of our hours were 70-hour weeks, and sometimes around the clock when we ran out of time. But I got the benefits of all the access to the technical facilities . . . We all had the choice job: whatever it was, being part of Eames Office was a status.”