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Eero Saarinen
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Tulip dining chairs model 151, set of six

Knoll Associates
USA, 1956 / c. 1965
fiberglass shell with enameled aluminum base, upholstery 31¼ h × 19 w × 22 d in (79 × 48 × 56 cm)

estimate: $1,500–2,000

result: $1,690

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Chairs each feature a swiveling base. Applied manufacturer's label to seat of five examples ‘Knoll Associates Inc. 320 Park Avenue N.Y.’, and to seat of one example ‘Knoll Associates Inc. 575 Madison Ave, NY 22’.
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, ppg. 63, 121-122, 123

Eero Saarinen 1910–1961

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Born in 1910, Eero Saarinen was surrounded by design his entire life; his father, Eliel Saarinen was an architect and director of the Cranbrook Academy of art and his mother, Loja Saarinen, was an acclaimed textile artist. In 1929, Saarinen traveled to Paris to study sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before enrolling in the Yale architecture program. He returned to Cranbrook in 1934 where he met fellow designer and friend, Charles Eames. In 1947, Saarinen won a competition to design a monument for Thomas Jefferson in St. Louis. His Gateway Arch would mark one of the many triumphs of his short but incredibly productive career.

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