Eero Saarinen

Saarinen
Eero

UNITED STATES

		1910 Kirkkonummi (FI) 1961 Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
Architect and designer, son of the famous architect Eliel Saarinen, he collaborated with Charles Eames on a revolutionary body-molded plywood-shell chair. He continued researches on this new material and designed among others the famous "Womb" chair in 1946 and "Tulip" chair in 1956 both edited by Knoll. He worked as an architect in his father's studio where he created in a free organic style important works like TWA Kennedy airport's terminal.

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (13-Sep-08 - 04-Jan-09)
This exhibition is part of a comprehensive project that explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial modern masters of 20th-century architecture and design. Finnish-born Saarinen (1910-1961) is best known for such modern icons as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch) in St. Louis, Missouri (designed 1948, completed 1964), the Trans World Airlines Terminal at JFK Airport in New York City, and Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia (both completed 1962).