70\u2019s Mid Century Authentic Knoll Eero Saarinen Tulip Dining Table<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saarinen was born in Helsinki in 1910<\/strong> to a family of artists. His father Eliel, who introduced him to art, was also an important architect and director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art<\/strong>. His mother was also an artist who worked in textile art.<\/p>\n With such a family, his destiny seemed almost pre-determined\u2026 so much so that it seems that when he was a boy he even helped his dad in the interior design for the Cranbrook campus in Michigan. At the dawn of the roaring Art Deco years in Paris<\/strong>, Saarinen delved deeply into sculpture and he studied architecture at Yale the next year. In 1934, he returned to the United States as a teacher, where he began a brilliant career that led him to design genuine icons of our times, such as this table.<\/p>\n The town of Cranbrook was clearly in his fate because it is here that he met another major player in modern design, Charles Eames<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It is fair to say that their friendship \/ collaboration \/ partnership shook up the whole design world and its effects are still felt to this day. They shared a common desire to experiment both in production processes and the use of materials. Where did this get them? In 1940, the MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, in New York,<\/strong> awarded them the prestigious Organic Design Award in Home Furnishings for the creation of a series of plywood chairs of irresistible forms.<\/p>\n Beautiful table designed by the famous Finnish architect Eero Saarinen.
\nThe ultra-elegant base is made of white glossy lacquered die-cast aluminum<\/strong>, named Tulip for the unmistakable shape of its base.
\nThe material under the top is white lacquered MDF wood<\/strong> and the top is ice white opaline plate-glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":100545,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6376,6411],"product_tag":[5420,5078,5403],"class_list":{"0":"post-83180","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-modern-art","7":"product_cat-modern-work-of-art-en","8":"product_tag-1970s","9":"product_tag-vintage-en","10":"product_tag-white","11":"product_shipping_class-dhl-en","13":"first","14":"outofstock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n