Eames Heir Sues to Stop Auction

April 6th, 2010 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

Lucia Eames, the daughter of 20th Century furniture designer Charles Eames and his wife, Ray, asked a Chicago court to block the planned auction of an archive of her parents’ photos and other materials. Eames, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in Illinois state court, claims the items on the block belong to her stepmother’s trust and the family-run Eames Office LLC, not to the sellers.