Original Eero Saarinen Furniture

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Original eero saarinen furniture.

How to identify a genuine saarinen dining table. This is an authentic knoll saarinen tulip side chair. Sixty years later the innovation and visual purity of eero saarinen s groundbreaking furniture designs remains unparalleled. Eero saarinen born to world famous parents architect and cranbrook academy of art director eliel saarinen and textile artist loja saarinen eero saarinen was surrounded by design his whole life.

Together they created forward thinking furniture designs until he passed on at the young age of 51. Particularly affecting were the organic curvilinear forms seen in saarinen s furniture and his best known structures. Though he started designing furniture in his teens it wasn t until he and charles eames won first prize in the museum of modern art s organic design in home furnishings competition in 1940 that he was taken seriously as a furniture designer. Eero saarinen ˈ eɪ r oʊ ˈ s ɑːr ɪ n ə n ˈ ɛər oʊ finnish.

The gull winged twa flight center at john f. The tulip collection is greenguard indoor air quality certified. Saarinen didn t start working with hans and florence knoll whom he also met at cranbrook until the late 1940s. August 20 1910 september 1 1961 was a finnish american architect and industrial designer noted for his wide ranging array of designs for buildings and monuments.

Saarinen house is eliel saarinen s art deco masterwork and the jewel of cranbrook s architectural treasures. Through his work as an architect and designer eero saarinen was a prime mover in the introduction of modernism into the american mainstream. Saarinen s modernist vision illustrated beautifully and exemplified by the pedestal collection endures informing any space in which it is set with its inherent timelessness and important place in design history. Saarinen is best known for designing the washington dulles international airport outside washington d c the twa flight.

A schoolmate and great friend of florence schust it was an obvious choice for her to invite eero to design for knoll when she joined the company in. Saarinen didn t ignore the smaller sculptural pieces needed to furnish his ambitious projects. Stamped with the knollstudio logo and eero saarinen s signature. One of those pieces was the popular saarinen table often referenced as the tulip table dating to the late 1950s.

Look no further than the finnish american stylings of eero saarinen. Designed in the late 1920s and located at the heart of cranbrook academy of art from 1930 through 1950 saarinen house served as the home and studio of the finnish american designer eliel saarinen cranbrook s first resident architect and the art academy s first. The seat swivels for easy entrance to or exit from a table.