产品介绍:
Tulip Chair, 1955-1956
Plastic-coated cast aluminium, moulded fibreglass, upholstered latex foam
Design: Eero Saarinen
The son of Eliel Saarinen, the eminent Finnish architect who co-founded the Cranbrook Academy after emigrating to the US, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) emerged as an accomplished architect and designer inhis own right. Best known for the TWA terminal building at NewYork’s John F. Kennedy Airport, he is also famed as the designer of the Tulip Chair. A friend of the Eames and Harry Bertoia, Saarinen shared their zest for harnessing the latest technologies to create modern furniture in fluid, organic forms. The Tulip is a fine example although Saarinen was disappointed by hisfailure – dogged by the limitations of 1950s plasticstechnology – to make it in a single piece