Eames: House of Cards: Collector's Edition

First produced in 1952, the House of Cards is a beloved staple of the Eames Office. Each deck of cards contains a myriad of fun designs. Each card comes with six notches to allow for creative building and endless fun.

The Eames ‘House of Cards’ was a diversely creative toy which, typical of the Eames’s designs, aimed at children and adults alike. There were two packs produced. The first, consisted of the ‘pattern deck’ which contained fifty-four cards with a wide variety of textured and/or colored patterns on the one side and a black asterisk on the other.

The second set, produced later, utilized photographs in place of the colored finishes, thus giving it its name of ‘picture deck’. Both sets of cards had 6 slits in them, two on each side and one at each end which allowed the cards to slot into each other, enabling them to create a vastly diverse architectural adventure, especially after the two decks were combined.