Eero Saarinen

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eero Saarinen

1910 (Finland) – 1961 (United States)
Finsko Američki arhitekt i industrijski dizajner, Eero Saarinen odabrao je skulpturalni pristup dizajnu namještaja. Bio je perfekcionist opsjednut skladom linija u konstantnoj potrazi za savršenstvom, često je pravio stotine modela kako bi bio siguran u savršen rezultat. Beskrajna pozornost na detalje se isplatila rad mu je postao kultni, a uključuje klasike dizajna kao što su Tulip Armchair, the Tulip Table and the Womb Chair.

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”