Eero Saarinen says he wanted to abolish the “miserable maze of legs.” In 1951 he designed the Saarinen Collection for Knoll, consisting of the still popular line of Executive Chairs. Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), a renowned post-war designer of both the sublime and the everyday, captivated the public and transformed the architectural profession with his designs of high. The very successful Tulip Chair belonged to this group. The Pedestal Group, dating from 1955-56, is collection of chairs and tables made of plastic and featuring only one central leg ending organically in a round disc on the floor. In 1940 Saarinen and Eames took part in the “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” competition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.įor Knoll International Saarinen designed a great many pieces of furniture, including the 1948 Womb Chair, which was designed to make those seated in it feel as secure and cozy as a fetus in the womb. Experimenting with Eames, Eero Saarinen co-developed new furniture forms and the first designs for furniture made of molded, laminated wood. Saarinen taught at Cranbrook Academy where he met Charles Eames in the late 1930s. When his father died in 1950, Eero Saarinen took over the practice. A Yale scholarship enabled Saarinen to travel to Europe but he returned to the US in 1936 to work in his father’s architectural practice. He studied architecture at Yale, graduating in 1934. They had a son, Eames, named after his friend and collaborator Charles Eames.Eero Saarinen, was born in 1910 in Finland and in 1923 the family emigrated to the US. Following his divorce from the sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen in 1954, Saarinen married Aline Bernstein Louchheim, an art critic at The New York Times. He had two children from his first marriage, Eric and Susan. His design, a steel-clad, concrete, triangular sectioned, 192m arch, exhibited a deep abstraction of the organic qualities of Finnish architecture, merging the modernist ideas of the moment with. Saarinen died on September 1, 1961, while undergoing surgery for a brain tumor. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and the main terminal of Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. Louis, Missouri, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Under Saarinen, the firm carried out many of its most important works including the Gateway Arch in St. Saarinen opened his own architectural firm, Eero Saarinen and Associates, in Bloomfield Hills, where he was the principal partner from 1950 until his death in 1961, when the firm moved to Hamden, Connecticut.
The first major work by Saarinen, in collaboration with his father, was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, constructed in 1956.ĭuring World War II, Saarinen was recruited to work for the Office of Strategic Services where he designed models of new equipment and weapons and, most importantly, the first Situation Room for the White House. Saarinen also took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch) in St. The "Tulip Chair," as it became known, was the basis of the seating used on the original Star Trek television series. Saarinen first received critical recognition in 1940 for a chair he designed with close friend and collaborator, Charles Eames, for which they won first prize at the Museum of Modern Art’s "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition. After graduation, Saarinen toured Europe and North Africa for a year and spent a year in Finland, after which he returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at Cranbrook Academy.
He then attended the Yale School of Architecture, graduating in 1934. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where his father co-founded and taught at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.īeginning in September 1929, Eero studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. Saarinen, son of famed architect Eliel Saarinen, moved to America with his family in 1923. Architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen was born in Finland on August 20, 1910.
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