The great Finnish-American architect-designer Eero Saarinen said he wanted to ‘get rid of the slum of legs’. His 1956 Tulip chair is thus a superlative exercise in slum clearance. Moulded fi...
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The great Finnish-American architect-designer Eero Saarinen said he wanted to ‘get rid of the slum of legs’. His 1956 Tulip chair is thus a superlative exercise in slum clearance. Moulded fibreglass shell on a cast aluminium base. Loose foam cushions are available in a huge range of colours. Exactly contemporary with this exercise in understatement, Saarinen also designed the hyperbolically sci-fi General Motors Tech Center in Warren, Michigan... source of the outrageous finned and chromed Cadillacs. Manufactured by Knoll, it carries an impression of the designer’s signature. Designed in 1956.
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