Ray Eames & the Adaptable Eames LTR

To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Ray Eames, we’re offering a Select Edition of the Eames Wire Base Low Table for a limited time in colors Ray would have appreciated: cobalt blue, red-orange, and yellow-gold. A small, low table of elegant proportions, the classic design is endlessly adaptable — use it alone to support everything from plants to display pieces to laptops, stack a few bedside or next to a sofa as a side table, or group several together to form a coffee table or an even larger surface. Need some inspiration? Here’s a look at how homes and workspaces across the country incorporate the timeless and flexible Eames design.

In addition to the Embody chair that occupies him Brooklyn-based home office, typographer Nick Keppol utilizes his Eames Wire Base Low Table as a supporter for books and decor. Another suggestion? It would be also smart as a holder of a printer or fax machine. (Photo: Anthony Nguyen / Apartment Therapy)

This hardworking Eames Wire Base Low Table hunkers down on the floor and supports the efforts of an on-the-go laptop. (Photo: Jan Skacelik / Houzz)

This Eames Wire Base Low Table has been charged with one simple task: display. (Photo: esotericsurvey.blogspot.com)

Grouped in fours, these low tables join forces to create a versatile coffee table that can be adjusted and moved around to meet other needs in the room — or elsewhere. (Photo: desiretoinspire.net)

The LTR makes a simple magazine-and-plant holder combo in the home of stylist Pella Hedeby. (Photo: stilinspiration.se)

Designed by Terence Conran, the Charles and Ray Eames Room in London’s Boundary hotel lives up to its name: a Wire Base Low Table, serving as a side table next to the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, an Aluminum Group Management Chair, and a Hang-It-All all call the space home. (Photo: Paul Raeside and Lisa Linder / theboundary.co.uk)

A singular Eames Wire Base Low Table sneaks under another larger table to add an auxiliary surface (and an extra dose of style) when needed. (Photo: wentworthstudio.com)

Several Eames LTRs line up for a child’s birthday party to celebrate a traditional tea ceremony much like the one Charles and Ray hosted in 1950 (the inspiration for the first design of their low table — see it here). (Photo: uplatecakes.blogspot.com)

The perfect perch for you cat? Explains Flickr user Vincent van der Heijden: “So I wanted a nice sidetable for my Sunday morning nespressos, but in the evenings it has a totally different purpose: it then acts as a daybed for my kitty. The LTR occasional kitty daybed….” (Photo: Vincent van der Heijden / Flickr)

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