With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the knoll saarinen tulip you’re looking for. Each knoll saarinen tulip for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using
metal,
aluminum and
plastic. If you’re shopping for a knoll saarinen tulip, we have 675 options in-stock, while there are 3 modern editions to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer knoll saarinen tulip, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right knoll saarinen tulip, those designed in
Mid-Century Modern,
Scandinavian Modern and
Modern styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made knoll saarinen tulip over the years, but those crafted by
Eero Saarinen,
Knoll and
Florence Knoll are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
Prices for a knoll saarinen tulip can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $1 and can go as high as $20,874, while the average can fetch as much as $2,907.
Through his work as an architect and designer, Eero Saarinen was a prime mover in the introduction of modernism into the American mainstream. Particularly affecting were the organic, curvilinear forms seen in Saarinen’s furniture and his best-known structures: the gull-winged TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy airport in New York (opened 1962), Dulles International Airport in Virginia (1962) and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (1965).
Saarinen had a peerless modernist pedigree. His father, Eliel Saarinen, was an eminent Finnish architect who in 1932 became the first head of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in suburban Detroit. The school became synonymous with progressive design and decorative arts in the United States, and while studying there the younger Saarinen met and befriended several luminaries of mid-century modernism, among them Harry Bertoia and Charles and Ray Eames.
At Cranbrook, Saarinen also met Florence Schust Knoll, who, as director of her husband Hans Knoll's eponymous furniture company, would put Saarinen’s best designs into production. These include the Grasshopper chair, designed in 1946 and so named because its angled bentwood frame resembles the insect; the Tulip chair (1957), a flower-shaped fiberglass shell mounted on a cast-aluminum pedestal; and the lushly contoured Womb lounge chair and ottoman (1948). In his furniture as in his architecture, the keynotes of Eero Saarinen’s designs are simplicity, strength and grace.
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