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Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer known for varying his style according to each project's demands. He was born on the same day as his father Eliel Saarinen and grew up in Michigan, studying sculpture and furniture design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen then studied architecture at Yale and toured Europe before returning to Cranbrook to work with his father and teach. He is renowned for his post-war architectural works like the TWA Terminal at JFK airport and for furniture designs like the "Tulip" and "Womb" chairs made of innovative materials like fiberglass and plastic. The "Tulip" chair was designed for Knoll in the 1950s to

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Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer known for varying his style according to each project's demands. He was born on the same day as his father Eliel Saarinen and grew up in Michigan, studying sculpture and furniture design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen then studied architecture at Yale and toured Europe before returning to Cranbrook to work with his father and teach. He is renowned for his post-war architectural works like the TWA Terminal at JFK airport and for furniture designs like the "Tulip" and "Womb" chairs made of innovative materials like fiberglass and plastic. The "Tulip" chair was designed for Knoll in the 1950s to

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Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the

e 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father, Eliel Saarinen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. Beginning in September 1929, he studied sculpture at the Academy de la Grande Chaumire in Paris, France. He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his studies in 1934. Subsequently, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year after which he returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy. He became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1940.
He began working with Charles and Ray Eames in the 1940s on a variety of furniture projects, as the designers shared a passion for organic shapes and cutting-edge materials, like plastics and plywood laminates. Eero Saarinen is perhaps best known as one of the most important post-war architects, although he did receive recognition for his furniture designs, most notably his Tulip and Womb chairs. But while many of Saarinens best-known creations tower over cityscapes, genuine Saarinen design can also be found in kitchens, dining rooms and lounges around the world. This undisputed master of 20th century architecture was also the furniture designer behind many of the eras most innovative and enduring piece s.

The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956 for the Knoll company of New [2] York City. It was designed primarily as a chair to match the complementary dining table. The chair has the smooth lines of modernism and was experimental with materials for its time. The chair is considered a classic of industrial design. Eero Saarinen had hoped to produce the chair as a one piece unit made entirely of fiberglass, but this material was not able to support the base, and prototypes were prone to breakage. As a result, the base of the tulip chair is of cast aluminum with a rilsan-coated finish to match the upper shell, giving the appearance of a single unit. The upper shell is molded fiberglass, with a reinforced, plastic bonded finish. One of the elements that characterise the work of eero Saarinen, both in architecture and industrial design, is the originality, diversness and uniqueness of every single creation.

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