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Eero Saarinen was born in Hvitträsk on August 20, 1910, to Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They migrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen.
Lilian Louisa Swann Saarinen (April 17, 1912 – May 22, 1995) was an American sculptor, artist, and writer. She was the first wife of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen , with whom she sometimes collaborated.
After the divorce from his first wife, Mathilde (who then married Herman Gesellius), on March 6, 1904, Saarinen married his second wife, Louise (Loja) Gesellius, a sculptor in Helsinki, and the younger sister of Herman Gesellius. They had a daughter Eva-Lisa (Pipsan) on March 31, 1905, and a son Eero on August 20, 1910. [1]
Eric Saarinen (born June 26, 1942) is an American cinematographer and film director. His parents were the architect Eero Saarinen and his first wife, the sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen. [1] [2] Saarinen has photographed several features, including The Hills Have Eyes directed by Wes Craven and Lost in America directed by Albert Brooks.
Following Saarinen's sudden death on September 1, 1961, [136] his associates, including Kevin Roche, Joseph N. Lacy, and John Dinkeloo, took over the CBS Building's design. [129] [137] Dinkeloo said the CBS headquarters had "especially excited" Saarinen, [138] who had said: "I think Louis Sullivan was right to want the skyscraper to be a ...
Eero Saarinen's wife Aline recalled that her husband saw most other air terminals as being ugly, shoddy, and inconvenient. [6] [64] Saarinen wanted the new terminal to have a practical purpose and not only "interpret the sensation of flying", [65] [66] but also "express the drama and specialness and excitement of travel". [67]
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The company is the licensed manufacturer of furniture designed by architects and designers such as Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, [3] under the company's KnollStudio division.