Eero Saarinen

At Lakeland Furniture we introduce Eero Saarinen. He first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize. The Tulip chair, like all other Saarinen chairs,ie Grasshopper and Womb Chair they were taken into production by the Knoll furniture company,

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.