The Stool 60 Giveaway. Sign up for our emails and a chance to win this ingenious stackable stool.Shop unique and handmade items directly from creative people around the world Popular items for saarinenThrough 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 (1962) and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (1965). Saarinen had a peerless modernist pedigree. His father, Eliel Saarinen, was an eminent Finnish architect who in 1932 became the first head of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in suburban Detroit. The school became synonymous with progressive design and decorative arts in the United States, and while studying there the younger Saarinen met and befriended several luminaries of mid-century modernism, among them Harry Bertoia, and Charles and Ray Eames.
At Cranbrook, Saarinen also met Florence Schust Knoll, who, as director of her husband Hans Knoll's eponymous furniture company, would put Saarinen’s best designs into production. These include the “Grasshopper” chair, designed in 1946 and so named because its angled bentwood frame resembles the insect; the “Tulip” chair (1958), a flower-shaped fiberglass shell mounted on a cast-aluminum pedestal; and the lushly contoured “Womb” lounge chair and ottoman (1948). In his furniture as in his architecture, the keynotes of Eero Saarinen’s designs are simplicity, strength and grace.3D Models by Product Download 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Revit, and SketchUp files for Individual Products. To download files for preconfigured workspaces, go to Living Office Design Solutions or Individual Typicals. You can save all AutoCAD symbols from the CAD Pack Symbol Library as DWG files and import them into SketchUp Pro. Revit Families and Typicals Download CAD Pack Furniture Manager, a Revit Add-In utility for Revit Architecture, to access families for the majority of our products.
Also, at Product Categories you can download families by product line. At Revit Typicals you can browse by product line and download project files for preconfigured workspaces. Individual Typicals are also available to download. If you're looking for files on specific products, go to Individual Products. CAD Pack Symbol Library has downloadable symbols for all our product. At Living Office Design Solutions or Individual Typicals you can download files for preconfigured workspaces. If you're looking for files on specific products, go to Individual Products.VitraOrganic ChairInformationProducts of the familyDesigner Organic ChairCharles Eames & Eero Saarinen, 1940The Organic Chair – a small and comfortable reading chair – was developed in several versions for the 1940 ‘Organic Design in Home Furnishings’ competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With its sculptural shapes, the design was ahead of the times. But due to the absence of suitable manufacturing techniques, the armchair never went into production.
Not until 1950 did it become possible to manufacture and market organically shaped seat shells in large quantities, as exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames's famous Plastic Armchair or Saarinen's Tulip Chair.The Organic Chair is also available in a version with an extended backrest and longer, wider armrests – the Organic Highback armchair. The Organic Conference version can be used as table seating.Hopsak (28)Other coloursCosy (10)Other coloursCredo (12)Other coloursTonus (13)Other colours2)Seat shell: laminated.Upholstery: polyurethane foam with fabric cover.Legs: black ash or natural oak.Glides: fitted with plastic glides for carpet, felt glides for hard floors additionally included. Saarinen's solution of the clutter of legs was the Tulip collection, or Pedestal, which was its original name. A design waiting to happen, it was was not until Knoll supplied the technical solution that the design was possible. Eero Saarinen's pedestal collection includes a dining, coffee and side table, as well as chairs with or without arms.
The Knoll logo is located on the underside of the base. plate with the KnollStudio logo and the signature of Eero Saarinen is also located on the underside of the top or on the top support plate to ensure the item is original. 244 x 137 x H: 73cm (marble) or 74cm (laminate/veneer) 198 x 121 x H: 73cm (marble) or 74cm (laminate/veneer) Base is available in heavy moulded cast aluminium. Black or white bases protected with Rilsan. Platinum base has a polyurethane coat with transparent finish. Top is available in a range of finishes: Natural maple (not available for large table) Natural oak veneer (not available for large table) Ebonised oak veneer (not available for large table) Walnut veneer (not available for large table) Arabescato marble (white with grey veining) Nero marquina marble (rich black with white random veins) Brown Emperador marble (random light brown and/or white veining - not available for large table) For more options please contact one of our stores.
Made to order item Eero SaarinenEero Saarinen, born in 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland, as the son of the architect Eliel Saarinen, studied sculpture in 1929 and 1930 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris before studying architecture at Yale University in New Haven until 1934. A Yale fellowship enabled him to travel to Europe. In 1936, he returned to the USA and worked in his father's architectural practice and also taught at Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills. It was here that Eero Saarinen met Charles Eames. Together they experimented on new furniture forms and produced the first designs for furniture made from moulded plywood. In 1940, they submitted a joint entry to the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Eero Saarinen went on to design numerous iconic furniture pieces, most notably for Knoll International. The TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York is considered to be his architectural masterpiece.