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Eero Saarinen

Tulip table and chairs model 151, set of five

Knoll International
USA, 1956 / c. 1968
enameled metal, marble, fiberglass shell with enameled aluminum base, vinyl 27¾ h × 54 dia in (70 × 137 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,750
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Chairs measure: 19.25 w x 22 d x 32 h inches.
Applied manufacturer's label to seat of each example ‘Knoll International 320 Park Ave. New York, NY 10022’. Upholstery manufacturer's label to underside of each example ‘Distributed by Knoll International, Inc. 320 Park Ave. New York, NY 10022.’. Molded manufacturer’s mark to underside of table base ‘Knoll International’.
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, ppg. 63, 121-122, 123

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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eero Saarinen

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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Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $45,000

Eero Saarinen

Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $35,000

Eero Saarinen

Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $35,000

Eero Saarinen

Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $35,000

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