121: EERO SAARINEN, Dining chairs model 72, set of sixteen < American Design Online, 25 February 2022 < Auctions

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Eero Saarinen
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Dining chairs model 72, set of sixteen

Knoll International
USA, 1948 / c. 1980
chrome-plated steel, molded fiberglass, vinyl 31½ h × 21½ w × 20 d in (80 × 55 × 51 cm)

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $8,750

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Metal inventory label to underside of each ‘IBM’. Paper manufacturer's label to underside of three examples ‘Knoll International Inc.’.
provenance: IBM, Lexington, KY | Private Collection
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, ppg. 51, 57

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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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