It was the end of 1945 and Evans Products Company ... They’d already collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames, the California-based designer couple, on a molded plywood leg splint.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, Charles and Ray Eames, the husband-and-wife design ... saws competed for space with antique dolls, light tables heaped with slides and piles of cameras and lenses.