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Eero Saarinen

Womb chair and ottoman

Knoll International
USA, 1946 / c. 1980
upholstery, chrome-plated steel 36 h × 39½ w × 34 d in (91 × 100 × 86 cm) 15½ h × 25½ w × 19½ d in (39 × 65 × 50 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $2,489
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Upholstery distributor label to underside of chair ‘Distributed by Knoll International’.
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, pg. 73 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, pg. 116 Atlas of Furniture Design, Vitra Design Museum, ppg. 400-401

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One finds that many different shapes are equally logical—some exciting, some earthbound, some soaring. The choice has really become a sculptor's choices.

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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Eero Saarinen

Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

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EERO SAARINEN, Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room | Wright20.com

Eero Saarinen

Custom Tulip table from the bar of the Grill Room

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $35,000

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