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Born in Finland, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) emigrated at the age ofthirteen to the United States of America in 1923. He grew up inBloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he took courses in sculpture andfurniture design, established a close relationship with fellowstudents Charles and Ray Eames, and also became good friends withFlorence Knoll (then Schust). Criticized in his own time for havingno identifiable style, Saarinen developed a remarkable range of work,which depended on colour, form and materials. Saarinen showed amarked dependence on innovative structures and sculptural forms, butnot at the cost of pragmatic considerations. He moved back and forthfreely between the International Style and Expressionism, utilizing avocabulary of curves and cantilevered forms, some of which haveremained in production and became twentieth-century furniture icons.When an interior is really sucessful, the compensations for all theeffort are tremendous. The clarity and serenity of a good interiorgive an absolutely marvelous feeling of strength with which to faceour complicated and confused world. The fact that one has achievedthis atmosphere with the form-world and technology of one’,sown era gives further satisfaction. […,] Especially in a worldof standardization of people as well as things, this coherent, clearexpresssion of one’,s own individuality is a necessary goa.Eero Saarinen
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