346: EERO SAARINEN, Tulip dining set < American Design, 15 September 2022 < Auctions

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15 September 2022

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Eero Saarinen
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Tulip dining set

Knoll International
USA, 1956/1958 / c. 1968
enameled aluminum and steel, lacquered fiberglass, laminate over wood, vinyl table: 28¾ h × 42 dia in (73 × 107 cm) chair: 31½ h × 19¼ w × 21 d in (80 × 49 × 53 cm) stool: 17 h × 14½ dia in (43 × 37 cm)

estimate: $1,500–2,000

result: $2,000

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Set includes dining table, model 173F four chairs, model 151 and one stool; six pieces total. Decal manufacturer's label to underside of each example ‘Knoll International 320 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022’.
provenance: Acquired from Knoll by the original owner | Thence by descent
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, ppg. 63, 121, 123 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, ppg. 146-147 discusses series

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs … I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

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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