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Cocktail Table
1984 · Granite and enameled aluminum
20 1/8 × 19 3/4 in., 30 lb. (51.1 × 50.2 cm, 13.6 kg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Eero Saarinen
1910
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Transformations in Modern Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Eero Saarinen, 1910�1961
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Eero Saarinen was an American architect and designer whose sculptural approach to modernist form defined postwar public and institutional space. Working primarily in reinforced concrete, steel, and glass, he created buildings of striking geometric precision that combined functionalist principles with expressive monumentality. His practice encompassed airport terminals, corporate headquarters, and civic structures that treated architecture as a coherent formal object rather than a neutral container. Saarinen's work established a distinctive bridge between European modernism and American optimism in the 1950s.
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