Vintage coffee table by Eero Sarinen for Knoll, 1950s

Eero Sarinen coffee table for Knoll, 1950s, in good condition, small signs of wear, Son of Eliel Saarinen, moved to the United States from Finland in 1923, graduated from Yale in 1934 and then specialized at the Cranbrook Institute of Architecture and Design, in which his father was a manager. Here he met Charles Eames, with whom he collaborated on various projects. Like Eames himself, he dedicated himself to researching new technologies in the use of materials, in particular in the molding of fiberglass. One of his major works was the General Motors technical center in Warren (Michigan), finished in 1955, in which the indications of the industrial rationalism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are perceived, but in less classicistic forms. From the same year are the chapel and the Kresge Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which mark for Saarinen the acquisition of a more coherent and personal language. After these beginnings of eclectic research between rationalism and romanticism of Scandinavian derivation, Saarinen established himself in the new American architecture with the Yale Hockey Rink in New Haven, completed in 1958, a sort of immense dinosaur in reinforced concrete, expressive not only in the form but also in the interior space. Reference : 283226