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Eero Saarinen Architect & Furniture Designer
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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
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1946 – Grasshopper Chair1956 – Tulip Chair
1940 – Organic Chair
1939 – Side Chairs
1948 – The Womb Chair
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Down with Love - 2003
Legally Blonde - 2001
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Worked closely with Florence Knoll of Knoll Furniture
Florence Knoll & Eero Saarinen pictured working together on the Pedestal Collection (Knoll Inc., 2015)
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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
/time/covers/0,16641,19560702,00.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_ArchTime Inc. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2015,
from www.time.com: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19560702,00.html