Ended MCM Knoll Saarinen Tulip Arm Chair & Swivel Stool

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$1,995.00

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Condition: Excellent

1965 Knoll Eero Saarinen White Tulip Arm Chair Original Royal Blue Cover & Swivel Stool/Ottoman
Includes
Original Authentic Knoll Saarinen designed Arm Tulip Chair in Clean Excellent Original Condition with Excellent Condition Original Matching swivel stool/Ottoman. Both have original Royal Blue covering.
Copy of original 1965 order receipt from Knoll Store in Birmingham Michigan right near the Cranbrook campus where the designer and manufacturer had all been located included!

In his purist approach to design, Finnish-born Eero Saarinen sought out the essential idea and reduced it to the most effective structural solution. He designed the 1956 Tulip chair in terms of its setting, rather than a particular shape. "In any design problem, one should seek the solution in terms of the next largest thing." he said. "If the problem is a chair, then its solution must be found in the way it relates to the room..." In Tulip, Saarinen realized his ideal of formal unity: "Every significant piece of furniture has a holistic structure." Winner of the 1969 Museum of Modern Art Award, the Tulip is Saarinen's genius solution to clearing up the "slum of legs" that populates the under-carriage of most dining sets.

The Saarinen tulip armchair features a cast aluminum base with a rilsan coated finish. Shell is molded fiberglass with a reinforced plastic bonded finish. Upholstered foam cushion is removable, with zippered cover and velcro fastening. Base and shell finishes are available in white, black or silver. Upholstery available with a seat cushion only or with a fully upholstered inner shell. This chair is accompanied by the nearly impossible to find round tulip stool/ottoman. As if to inspire you further, a copy of the original purchase receipt along with Royal Blue fabric selection is included. Purchased and customized in 1965. Obtained from 95 year old original owner who purchased it with full knowledge he was getting something special to stand the test of time bought at the Birmingham Knoll store near the Cranbrook Campus.

Dimensions of chair
26" w | 23.25" d | 32" h | seat: 18" h | arm: 25.4" h

About the designer
Finnish-American Eero Saarinen (1910 –1961) was famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project. His father taught at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in birmingham Michigan, where Eero took classes and formed relationships with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, and Florence Knoll. Saarinen studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, and later at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his studies in 1934.

He joined the US Military, where he was assigned to draw illustrations for bomb disassembly manuals and to provide designs for the Situation Room in the White House. He founded his own office in 1950, after his father’s death. His first success, the “Tulip Chair” was produced by the Knoll company, beginning a long relationship between Knoll and Saarinen. While still working for his father, he won the design competition for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, in St. Louis, aka the Gateway Arch.

About the manufacturer
Hans Knoll, the son of a pioneer German furniture manufacturer, founded the Knoll company in New York City in 1938, one year after immigrating from Germany.

He hired Florence Schust, a Cranbrook graduate who had worked for Gropius and Breuer, and the two were married in 1946. The next year, they opened a textiles division and showroom that was flanked with some of the worlds leading designers. Knoll would triumph thanks to impressive international contacts, gaining exclusive rights to the works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and producing them to their original specifications. This included the 1929 Barcelona Chair.

They also commissioned Eero Saarinen to design the now iconic Tulip chair, and hold the rights to Marcel Breuer’s seminal Wassily Chair. Artists such as Harry Bertoia, Jens Risom, and Isamu Noguchi would also collaborate with Knoll.

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