Vitra Eames Elephant REAlmost no other animal enjoys such popularity as the elephant. Admired for its majestic size and loved for its proverbial good humour, it is part of our everyday experience as a child's cuddly toy, a storybook character and a majestic creature. Charles and Ray Eames also succumbed to their charms and in 1945 designed a toy elephant made of plywood. However, it never made it into mass production. The Eames elephant is now available for the first time