
Armchair
Catalogue
- Year
- 1948
- Medium
- Wood and leather
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 45.7 × 51.1 cm (30 × 18 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Eero Saarinen
Artist

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.
Kirkkonummi/Kyrkslätt, Finland
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Record
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- Eero Saarinen
- Year
- 1948
- Medium
- Wood and leather
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 45.7 × 51.1 cm (30 × 18 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1948-139930
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





