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SILVER Seller in Pistoia, Italy
Pair of coffee tables with black painted die-cast aluminium pedestal base and oval top in white lacquered wood. These two coffee tables were produced in the 1990s in the style of designer Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect born on 20 August 1910. The son of an architect and a sculptor, Eero attended public schools in Michigan and in 1929 entered the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris to study sculpture. He then studied architecture at Yale University from 1931 to 1934 and was able to travel to Europe and North Africa from 1934 to 1935. Eero began his professional life in the United States, researching housing and urban planning at the Flint Institute of Research and Planning in Michigan in 1936. After working there for two years, he joined his father's firm in 1938. The first international recognition for Eero came during his collaboration with his father. He started with the design of a chair and, later, this father and son duo managed to win many more competitions for their innovative designs and projects. In addition, they continued to design furniture for a long period of time. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen founded his own firm 'Eero Saarinen & Associates' in Birmingham, where he worked until his death in 1961. During this period, he devoted a large part of his time to designing furniture and other design ideas for the home. Some of his major architectural structures and contributions to the field of design include: the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex in Holmdel Township, New Jersey Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (including the Gateway Arch) in St. Louis, Missouri the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport the main terminal at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Throughout his career, Saarinen worked passionately in his field. He always seemed to be competing with his own designs, every time he set out to make something new. He studied all phases of construction with great care and paid attention to all details, from the concerns and requests of his customers to the final execution of the ideas. He was responsible for introducing the trend of experimentation and design exploration into the field of architecture. He was one of those architects who had no other interests in life but architecture and did not even bother to put his ideas in writing in the form of a book or anything else.
ID: 6186-1683794564-63318
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