The Tulip Collection Odeto.com

01-09-2015

• At twelve years old Eero Saarinen won his first design, by illustrating a story entirely with matches for a Swedish newspaper. The price was 30 Kroner or $ 8.

• The architect born in Finland grew up surrounded by design. His father was a famous architect and his mother was a talented sculptor and textile maker. After studying architecture at Yale, he followed in the footsteps of his father and became active in the family business.

• When Saarinen’s winning design for the St. Louis Gateway Arch sending, the prize was accidentally transferred to his father. Although his architectural masterpieces received serious recognition (and a spot on the cover of Time magazine in 1956) are among his furniture among the most celebrated of the twentieth century.

• One of the most prominent modernists, Saarinen designed the pedestal Collection to alleviate the clutter in American homes. “The frame of the chairs and tables in a typical interior makes an ugly, confusing, troubled world. Unfortunately, creating a single piece of cast material is technically impossible at the time. A reinforced plastic and aluminum handle supports the curved fiberglass shell of the Tulip Chair.

• The collection consists of chairs, tables, and a stool, his last, he died of a brain tumor in 1961. Fortunately lives his sculptural nod to the future of design continues.

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