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Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and designer and a prime mover in the introduction of modernism into the American mainstream. Particularly affecting were the organic, curvilinear forms seen in Saarinen’s furniture and his best-known structures: the gull-winged TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy airport in New York, Dulles International Airport in Virginia and the Gateway ...
Through his work as an architect and designer, Eero Saarinen was a prime mover in the introduction of modernism into the American mainstream. Particularly affecting were the organic, curvilinear forms seen in Saarinen’s furniture and his best-known structures: the gull-winged TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy airport in New York (opened 1962), Dulles International Airport in Virginia ...
The Saarinen Collection. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, Eero Saarinen designed many of the most recognizable Knoll pieces, including the Tulip Chairs and Pedestal Tables, the Womb Chair, and the 70 Series Executive Seating Collection. His designs used modern materials in graceful ways, helping establish the identity of Knoll during our ...
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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance mans life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence, said Eero Saarinen in 1959. Saarinens architectural legacy communicates this sentiment of giddy potential and unfettered optimism in post-war America. Iconic projects like the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Washington D.C...
Born in Finland to famed architect Eliel Saarinen and textile designer Loja Saarinen, Eero immigrated with his family to the United States in 1923. Settling in Michigan, Eliel co-founded the Cranbrook Academy of Art and designed most of the buildings for the campus now a National Historic Landmark while the young Eero worked alongside his father ...
In 1934, Saarinen graduated from the School of Architecture at Yale University. As his career flourished, he was criticized for changing his style depending on his clients needs and desires. The architect, however, saw his clients as co-creators and was dedicated to pushing the established boundaries of modernism, what he called the measly ABC. Cli...
Saarinen didnt ignore the smaller sculptural pieces needed to furnish his ambitious projects. Though he started designing furniture in his teens, it wasnt until he and Charles Eames won first prize in the Museum of Modern Arts Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition in 1940 that he was taken seriously as a furniture designer. Though their aw...
Saarinens illustrious career was cut short with his untimely death in 1961, at age 51, while having surgery for a brain tumor. (Coincidentally, his wife Aline would die from the same affliction, a decade later.) His partners at Saarinen & Associates, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, completed his 10 remaining projects. In 2002, Roche donated Saarinen...
Shop iconic furniture designs by Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect and furniture designer who created the Tulip Chair, Womb Chair and Pedestal Table. Learn about his life, work and legacy at Design Within Reach.
Saarinen designed each piece in the Tulip series of furniture with a single pedestal leg, creating a unified environment of chairs, tables, and stools. The Tulip chair also marks the culmination of Saarinen's efforts to create a chair molded from a single material, which furthered his design concept of "one piece, one material."
Jul 7, 2023 · It was Florence Knoll’s request for “a chair like a basket full of pillows” that spawned Eero Saarinen’s 1948 Womb, the now famous sculptural seat that cradles its sitter in a gentle ...
Jul 31, 2015 · dam-images-decor-2015-08-saarenin-eero-saarinen-furniture-05.jpg. In Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s 1960s Beverly Hills residence, interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard used a marble-top ...
