Modern Design 
23 March 2010
Modern Design 
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Eero Saarinen

Grasshopper chair and ottoman

Knoll Associates
USA, 1946
lacquered wood, upholstery 35 h × 25½ w × 35 d in (89 × 65 × 89 cm)
estimate: $3,000–4,000
result: $3,438
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Ottoman measures 24 w x 18 d x 16 h inches. Signed with applied manufacturer's label to underside of each example: [Knoll Associates Inc., 320 Park Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.].

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Eero Saarinen 1910–1961

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Born in 1910, Eero Saarinen was surrounded by design his entire life; his father, Eliel Saarinen was an architect and director of the Cranbrook Academy of art and his mother, Loja Saarinen, was an acclaimed textile artist. In 1929, Saarinen traveled to Paris to study sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before enrolling in the Yale architecture program. He returned to Cranbrook in 1934 where he met fellow designer and friend, Charles Eames. In 1947, Saarinen won a competition to design a monument for Thomas Jefferson in St. Louis. His Gateway Arch would mark one of the many triumphs of his short but incredibly productive career.

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