Sold|$7,800 / set
Grasshopper Chair + Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
This Grasshopper Chair by Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer during the 1940's for Knoll International, was designed with a simple, yet bold and inno...
Sheepskin, Birch
Sold|$3,000 / set
Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Saarinen for Knoll womb chair and ottoman. Probably re-upholstered 20 years ago in a red fabric.
Iron
Eero Saarinen Style "Womb" Chair with Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In the style of the original "Womb" chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll International in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Metal
Sold|$5,145 / set
Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair with Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Ferndale, MI
Eero Saarinen for Knoll, Original Design 1946
Sold|$4,250
Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautiful Womb Chair and ottoman in Classic Boucle Crimson. Did I say Brand new from Knoll? Decorator ordered incorrectly! Perfect in every way!
Upholstery
Sold|$5,000
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Amarillo, TX
Eero Saarinen. Womb chair and ottoman upholstered in Alexander Girard fabric.
Steel
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
1990s edition of Classic Womb chair and ottoman in brown bouclé fabric by Eero Saarinen for Knoll.
Chrome
Eero Saarinen 'Womb' Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Stamford, CT
Great Eero Saarinen 'Womb' chair and ottoman for Knoll of plated steel and light orange upholstery.
Steel
Womb Chair & Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
A womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll upholstered in baroque fabric.
Fabric
Sold|$5,790 / set
Knoll Eero Saarinen Vintage "Womb" Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in New York, NY
A vintage "Womb" chair and ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. Features newer upholstery in tangerine velvet.
Metal, Chrome
Sold|$4,800 / set
Eero Saarinen Knoll Malachite Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Price listed is for the chair and ottoman. Ottoman measures: 22" wide x 21" deep x 14" tall.
Steel
Vintage Grasshopper Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Eero Saarinen
Located in New York, NY
Vintage "Grasshopper" chair and ottoman by Eero Saarinen. USA, circa 1960. Walnut frame with beige wool textured upholstery.
Walnut
Saarinen for Knoll Leather Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Like a favourite pair of worn gloves, or an old oiled baseball mitt this Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and ottoman has a richly patinated Spinneybeck Leather in a Sienna Burnt orange...
Metal, Chrome
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Classic modernist Womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen manufactured by Knoll, original red wool Girard Knoll fabric in wonderful condition.
Chrome
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman, Knoll Label
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Eero Saarinen for Knoll International, USA, 1948. A womb chair and ottoman, nice arly production example with black enamelled tubular frame and newly reupholstered in Kirkby "Loop" f...
Early Production Eero Saarinen Knoll Womb Chair Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Early production Eero Saarinen Knoll womb chair and ottoman. This example has a black iron frame and is upholstered in a stunning kelly green upholstery.
Sold|$4,800 / set
Early Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Nice early Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair with rubber boot glides.
Metal
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An early model exhibiting steel disk feet and no cushion on the ottoman.
Upholstery
Early Saarinen womb chair and ottoman by Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Highland, IN
The early production womb chairs are among the most desirable. The legs/ frame are solid steel rather than tubular and the fiberglass shell is much thicker. They have much more heft ...
Steel
Sold|$4,500
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair & Ottoman for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Eero Saarinen Womb chair & ottoman for Knoll. The chair and ottoman both retain the original fabric.
Steel
Sold|$3,900
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Ferndale, MI
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
Sold|$3,850 / set
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair & Ottoman Knoll Inc
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Fulton, CA
Authentic womb chair & ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll Incorporated.
Metal
Sold|$4,950
Knoll Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
A Saarinen womb chair and ottoman by Knoll. Chromed steel frames.
Steel
Chrome Frame Womb Chair with Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Ferndale, MI
Chrome Frame Womb Chair with Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
Grasshopper Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
An iconic grasshopper lounge chair and matching ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll.
Eero Saarinen For Knoll Red Leather Womb Chair & Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Pasadena, TX
A mid century modern Womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen and made by Knoll.
Steel
Sold|$2,595 / set
Eero Saarinen Mid-Century Modern Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional Mid-Century Modern womb lounge chair and ottoman Designed by Eero Saarinen USA, Circa Late 20th Century Measures: Chair: 37.5"W x 39"D x 35"H.
Steel
Vintage Womb Lounge Chair And Ottoman Eero Saarinen Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Atlanta, GA
vintage womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen in 1946, this version is from 80s and has recently been professionally recovered in high grade black vinyl.
Steel
Sold|$5,350 / set
1960s Womb Chair & Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Chicago, IL
Produced by Knoll, tagged. The fabric is in excellent condition, and the seat / ottoman foam is is still very soft. The foam attached to the fiberglass shell has hardened a bit over...
Fabric
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll Associates
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This pre 1964 edition of the womb and ottoman has been expertly recovered in a turquoise blue Knoll boucle fabric. Frame and brushed steel legs are in perfect condition. We have ret...
Steel
Eero Saarinen Womb Lounge Chair w/ Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A womb chair with matching ottoman in a orange / yellow woven wool blend fabric sitting on chromed steel legs with nylon foot pads to protect your floors . This is the iconic lounge ...
Upholstery
1940s Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen, 2 Pieces
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
A vintage Womb chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll International.
Chrome
Pair of Eero Saarinen Womb Chairs and Ottomans for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of original womb chairs and ottomans designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. Chrome frame with original dusty rose upholstery.
Chrome
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in New York, NY
Eero Saarinen Womb chair and ottoman for Knoll. Chair measures: 37" W x 35.5" H x 26.5" D.
Early Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Dallas, TX
An early womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. Restored and upholstered in mohair.
Modern White Knoll Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Houston, TX
Modern white womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. The chair still has the original wool fabric that is in decent shape
Steel
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Houston, TX
Original mid-1960s womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll in 1952.
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair with Ottoman by Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Dallas, TX
Eero Saarinen womb chair on chrome base with ottoman. Knoll labels intact.
Metal
Sold|$7,100 / set
Eero Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful Eero Saarinen designed Womb chair and ottoman for Knoll.
Steel
Early 1960s Eero Saarinen Knoll Leather Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Eero Saarinen for Knoll womb chair and ottoman, circa 1960.
Steel
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Munich, DE
Designed in 1948. Early version. Recently reupholstered and in good condition.
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman by Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Highland, IN
Saarinen's iconic lounge chair and ottoman in a rich, textural fabric.
Steel
Sold|$6,500 / set
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Eero Saarinen for Knoll Womb chair and Ottoman. Said to be like your Mother's Womb in Comfort!
Metal
Sold|$6,800 / set
Eero Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and Ottoman
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Eero Saarinen for Knoll Womb Chair and ottoman. Probably one of the most comfortable chairs ever created!
Metal
Sold|$3,200
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in New York, NY
Iconic Womb chair and ottoman designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll, circa 1978.
Steel
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Hamburg, PA
Classic womb chair and ottoman in original vintage fabric. Fabric and foam will need to be replaced. Frame is in excellent condition.
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Sold|$5,800 / set
Womb Chair + Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 2000s. Price is for the set. Contact us if you’d like to purchase a single item. Classic style womb chair in original red Knoll fabric. Ottoman 24L 20W 15H
Fabric
Womb Chair + Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1990s. Price is for the set. Contact us if you’d like to purchase a single item. Classic style womb chair in original red Knoll fabric. Ottoman 24L 20W 15H
Metal
Sold|$4,400 / set
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Nice clean example of a Knoll Classic! Chair is about 5-6 years old, retains its Knoll label as shown. Bright red fabric with no signs of wear. Chrome base, all glides present and wo...
Chrome
Sold|$10,000 / set
Pair of Knoll Eero Saarinen Womb Chairs and Ottomans Mid Century
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pair of Saarinen knoll womb chairs and ottomans mid-century design, manufactured c. 2000's.
Steel
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Ferndale, MI
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
Sold|$14,500 / set
Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and Ottoman in Golden Teddy Bear Sheepskin
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Saint Louis, US
Relax and unwind in this beautifully comfortable original Eero Saarinen Womb Chair and ottoman set. The chair is accompanied by an ottoman of which both are fully reupholstered in hi...
Steel
Womb Chair and Ottoman by Eero Saarinen for Knoll
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Eero Saarinen's classic Womb chair and Ottoman for Knoll with a chrome frame and in its original olive boucle upholstery fabric.
Sold|$1,000 / item
Forsyth Bespoke Eero Saarinen Womb Ottoman in California Sheepskin
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
Images are of a womb chair and ottoman we recently finished. “Eero Saarinen designed the ground-breaking womb chair at Florence Knoll's request for ‘a chair that was like a basket...
Sheepskin
Early Production Saarinen Knoll Womb Chair & Ottoman Reupholstered LIC Label
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful early production Eero Saarinen Knoll Womb Chair and ottoman that we just recently had reupholstered. the fabric we chose is a Knoll Studios “Feeling Plaid” which is 55% R...
Steel
Grasshopper Chair and Ottoman Attributed to Eero Saarinen for Knoll, USA
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Deland, FL
An iconic design; comfortable for daily use. This set was constructed in laminated birch plywood. The molded bentwood frame has been stained walnut. The beige fabric is neutral and t...
Birch
Eero Saarinen womb chair and ottoman in cato fabric
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Highland, IN
This beautiful vintage womb chair and ottoman have just been restored in red Knoll cato fabric. The classic design is perfectly complimented by the rich texture and vibrant color of ...
Stainless Steel, Chrome
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.
Find vintage Eero Saarinen tables, chairs and other furniture on 1stDibs.
While this specific seating is known to all for its comfort and familiar form, the history of how your favorite antique or vintage lounge chair came to be is slightly more ambiguous.
Although there are rare armchairs dating back as far as the 17th century, some believe that the origins of the first official “lounge chair” are tied to Hungarian modernist designer-architect Marcel Breuer. Sure, Breuer wasn’t exactly reinventing the wheel when he introduced the Wassily lounge chair in 1925, but his seat was indeed revolutionary for its integration of bent tubular steel.
Officially, a lounge chair is simply defined as a “comfortable armchair,” which allows for the shape and material of the furnishings to be extremely diverse. Whether or not chaise longues make the cut for this category is a matter of frequent debate.
The Eames lounge chair, on the other hand, has come to define somewhat of a universal perception of what a lounge chair can be. Introduced in 1956, the Eames lounger (and its partner in cozy, the ottoman) quickly became staples in television shows, prestigious office buildings and sumptuous living rooms. Venerable American mid-century modern designers Charles and Ray Eames intended for it to be the peak of luxury, which they knew meant taking furniture to the next level of style and comfort. Their chair inspired many modern interpretations of the lounge — as well as numerous copies.
On 1stDibs, find a broad range of unique lounge chairs that includes everything from antique Victorian-era seating to vintage mid-century modern lounge chairs by craftspersons such as Hans Wegner to contemporary choices from today’s innovative designers.