Eero Saarinen Tulip Coffee Table

One of those pieces was the popular saarinen table often referenced as the tulip table dating to the late 1950s.

Eero saarinen tulip coffee table.

1981 vintage 54 round saarinen tulip dining table by eero saarinen for knoll stamped 1 950. 54ʺw 36ʺd 15 5ʺh chattanooga tn. Restored early weighted insert base knoll saarinen tulip oval coffee table 2 995 3 495. We offer an extensive selection of saarinen tulip table replicas for your kitchen or dining room some influenced by the original look and others with more modern modifications.

The tulip table a unique elegant design with wonderfully natural curves and a choice of beautiful top finishes a creative masterpiece of a design from eero saarinen if you had no idea and were asked when you thought this table was designed would you guess the 1950 s. His father taught at the cranbrook academy of art where eero took classes and formed relationships with fellow students charles and ray eames and florence knoll. Finnish american eero saarinen 1910 1961 was famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project. Tulip oval coffee table by eero saarinen knoll international 1960.

Not many do it is hard to believe sometimes that this most current and contemporary of designs was borne in the last mid. 54ʺw 54ʺd 28 5ʺh new york ny. Eero saarinen s pedestal collection includes dining coffee and side tables. Eero saarinen and knoll international tulip table.

A drop of magic eero saarinen s iconic table began with his observation that the underside of typical tables and chairs makes a confusing unrestful world a master of expressive sculptural forms he designed the saarinen table with a pedestal base inspired by a drop of high viscosity liquid. Saarinen didn t start working with hans and florence knoll whom he also met at cranbrook until the late 1940s. From the late 1940s through the 1950s eero saarinen designed many of the most recognizable knoll pieces including the tulip chairs and pedestal tables the womb chair and the 70 series executive seating collection. The knoll logo is located on the underside of the base.

A nameplate with the knollstudio logo and the signature of eero saarinen is also located on the underside of the top or on the top support plate. Signed under the feet round table rilsan sheathed cast aluminium base circular white marble top cham. Eero saarinen vowed to address the ugly confusing unrestful world he observed underneath chairs and tables the so called slum of legs a five year design investigation led him to the revolutionary pedestal collection including what is perhaps the most recognized table of the modern era. Buy tulip table replicas in marble or wood tulip dining chairs womb chair ottoman reproductions and more inspired by eero saarinen.