Eero Saarinen Architect & Furniture Designer

Early life & backgroundBorn 1910 in Finland and moved with architect

father and sculptor mother and 3 siblings to America in 1923

After school went to Paris to study to be a sculptor in ’29

Returned to study architecture in Yale in 1931Post graduation worked in Helsinki for a year &

2 years in Flint, Michigan in Housing & planning before joining his Father’s practice in 1938

1946 – Grasshopper Chair1956 – Tulip Chair

1940 – Organic Chair

1939 – Side Chairs

1948 – The Womb Chair

Down with Love - 2003

Legally Blonde - 2001

Worked closely with Florence Knoll of Knoll Furniture

Florence Knoll & Eero Saarinen pictured working together on the Pedestal Collection (Knoll Inc., 2015)

Continued to work with his Father and has received a lot of recognition for his architectural works

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Works sitedhttp://content.time.com

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