Vintage Knoll Eero Saarinen Red Womb Lounge Chair & Ottoman Mid Century Modern
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Vintage Knoll Eero Saarinen Red Womb Lounge Chair & Ottoman Mid Century Modern :
$1800.00
Original Womb Lounge Chair & Ottoman by Knoll
From estate of former NYC fashion stylist - may have been reupholstered as there are no labels. Have original receipt as purchased at a Knoll Studio Sale June 25-26, 1999Chair 34\" D x 40\" W x 35.5\" H SH 16\" ARM HT 20.5
Otto 20\" D x 24\" W x 16\" H
Eclat Velvet Pattern Fabric in good condition. Solid frame and structure intact. Would benefit from a deep clean.
No tears but some scuffs as pictured - please view images as part of the description
ABOUT Eero Saarinen (USA, 1910-1961)
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 (1958), 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.
Local pick up only in Claremont, CA. 91711
Can deliver within 200 miles of claremont at 50 cents per mile
Vintage Knoll Eero Saarinen Red Womb Lounge Chair & Ottoman Mid Century Modern :
$1800.00