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Poster od Saarinenove stolice iz 50-ih / Poster of
Saarinen chair from 50’s
thor’s desire to get rid of “the disorder” that
was created by all those numerous legs that
supported furniture like chairs and tables. He
felt that it was actually the back of the chair
that contributed to the harmony of the completed
form and its intertwining with space.
The back of the Tulip Chair was inspired by a
fall or the pouring of a very sticky liquid, like
honey or resin. Just as was the case with his
architectonic projects, Saarinen’s furniture
was characterized by expressive sculptural
forms. His purist approach to architecture
and design demanded a basic idea that
would be reduced to the finest structural solution
within the overall design. The idea for
the Tulip Chair owed more to its immediate
environment than to aiming for a very predetermined
shape. Saarinen strived towards
achieving balance between a piece of furniture
and its immediate environment. Tulip
Chair received an award by the Museum of
Modern Arts in 1969 as a chair that presented
the unity of form and material.
His design work from the Womb Chair, which
was created out of Florence Knoll’s desire to
come up with a chair that you can curl up
in, all the way to the pedestal series of sculptural
tables and chairs, now enjoys a legendary
status, and it must be said that Playboy
Magazine described him with words like “vibrancy,
finesse and a high degree of imagination”.
Saarinen spent the entire course of
his career designing furniture, and he never
stopped being interested in exploring new
materials, innovative construction techniques
and sculptural forms, which were the
same characteristics that were present in his
architecture. Even back as a teenager, he
designed furniture for Cranbrook Academy.
Eero Saarinen was one of the most productive,
unorthodox and controversial masters
of twentieth-century architecture, as well as
one of the most famous architects of his time.
During the post-war years, he very much
contributed to the creation of the USA’s international
image by creating some of the
most potent symbolic expressions of American
identity. It’s likely that his most famous
project is the famous TWA Terminal at JFK
Airport, which represents the peak of his designer
and architectonic career and a clear
example of expressionism and technical excellence
while working with concrete shells.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Saarinen contributed
a great deal to the involvement of modern
architecture into American mainstream,
along with his father. He is now considered
to be one of the great masters of American
architecture of the last century. He died in his
fifty-first year of life, leaving behind about a
dozen of unfinished projects. His energy and
the desire to create haven’t abandoned him
till the very end of his life.
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