Obituary: Merle T. Westlake Jr., 86 Nov 11, 2008
After receiving a master of architecture and urban design degree from Cranbrook, he worked for Eliel and Eero Saarinen. He also worked as an associate in the architectural firm of Lawrie & Green in Harrisburg, Pa. (Acton Beacon, MA)
• US to build new embassy in suburban London Oct 3, 2008
The State Department had been weighing whether to renovate the 600-room embassy, a modern concrete-and-glass building designed by Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen, or sell it and move to a new site in the suburbs. The move requires approval from the U.S. Congress and local planning authorities, and Tuttle said relocation was probably five years away. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
A&A redux: redeeming a tarnished reputation Sep 15, 2008
It was a frenzied period of building for Yale, and the University, under Griswolds watch, received much public attention for its Modern monuments, which included the two Kahn museums and designs of Eero Saarinen, ARC 34 the new residential colleges of Morse and Stiles and Ingalls Rink. By the time Rudolph had started on design plans for the Art and Architecture Building, Modernist theory had been spreading its roots into the framework of American architecture for over three decades. (Yale Herald, CT)
Does Native American exhibit belong at Mount Rushmore? Aug 26, 2008
The most well-known, like Mount Rushmore s presidential faces, is a conceptual feat of art and engineering Eero Saarinen s stainless steel Gateway Arch. But there s also the Museum of Westward Expansion, which tells the story of Lewis and Clark s Corps of Discovery and features artifacts from Native Americans and Midwestern pioneers. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
The Shaper of Things to Come Jun 29, 2008
There are some standout contemporary designs locally, but most are in Cambridge, specifically at MIT - the Stata Center (by Frank Gehry), Simmons Hall (by Steven Holl), the Chapel (by Eero Saarinen), and the Wiesner Building, home of The List Visual Arts Center (by I.M. Pei). There is also the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard (by Le Corbusier). (Boston Globe)
A Monet sets record at £40.92 million in Christie's sale Jun 25, 2008
The aura surrounding the couple of art patrons, who displayed their works in a 1957 house that was one of the finest built by Eero Saarinen, undoubtedly enhanced the picture. So did the scarcity of these compositions by Monet, the greatest of which are now ensconced in museums. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Architecture Is a Reason to Travel Jun 24, 2008
a ranking city of architectural innovation, as did a father-son pair from Finland, Eliel and Eero Saarinen. The son, forever tied to the St. Louis, Missouri landscape as designer of the Gateway Arch, also made a large-scale formal sculpture functional with the North Christian Church, a hexagonal, spaceship-like structure that appears to hover above the ground: Its 192-foot needle-shaped spire lances the sky from the middle of the roof. (Suite101.com)
Art is life for advocate and author Nina Gibans Jun 20, 2008
Original mid-century modern furniture fills their home, some of it inherited from her father: Eero Saarinen s 1948 Womb chair, Pierre Jeanneret s Scissors chairs, cane-backed bentwood dining chairs by Thonet. Her mid-century condominium building, she notes, was reportedly built for those banned from The Moreland Courts apartments across the street on Shaker Boulevard. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
My furniture fantasy. Yours? May 23, 2008
It s this legendary table, created by Finnish-born American designer Eero Saarinen in 1957. According to Knoll s website, Saarinen is said to have designed this elegant pedestal table as a way to clear up the slum of legs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
California Cool May 11, 2008
In the early '60s, shortly after the merger of its three predecessors into the Oakland Museum of California, architect Eero Saarinen was brought in to design the museum's new home. When Saarinen, one of the kingpins of postwar modernism, died unexpectedly, Ken Roche took over. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Readers' picks Apr 22, 2008
Once I started The Proud Possessors: The Lives, Times and Tastes of Some Adventurous American Art Collectors by Aline Saarinen (the wife of the architect Eero Saarinen) I couldn't wait to get back to it. Robert Schmidt, Armonk, N.Y.. (Christian Science Monitor)
Ralph Rapson, at 93; was noted modernist architect Apr 4, 2008
He earned architecture degrees from the University of Michigan and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he studied with Finnish architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames. He taught at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1942 to 1946 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1954 while also maintaining an architecture practice. (Boston Globe)
Art Review | 'Birth of the Cool': Store in a cool, fertile place: 1950s California Mar 22, 2008
The exhibition presents some of Shulman's sleek, luminous pictures of the Case Study houses, a series of midcentury works by Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen and other architects that were meant to show the adaptability of Modernist principles to residential housing. In Shulman's glamorous pictures, which, unusually for architectural photography, included live models, there is a dreamy vision of the good life: a combination, one imagines, of cocktails, sex and jazz on the hi-fi. (International Herald Tribune)
Bride selects dress to reflect the sparkle of her big day Mar 20, 2008
Her ceremony is to be in the MIT Chapel, the windowless round sanctuary designed by Eero Saarinen and decorated by a metal sculpture that cascades from a skylight above the altar. Surely, a dress with metallic fabric is in order. (Boston Globe)
Modernism for the masses Mar 8, 2008
The white Eero Saarinen Tulip dining table, their one "serious" piece, was chosen for its period looks. "We love midcentury modern, but we didn't want to be cliche about it," Cabalquinto says. (AZCentral -- Home)
Bauhaus Furniture Design at Knoll Mar 1, 2008
But the school that ultimately most influenced the Knoll company was Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Illinois, run by Eero Saarinen s architect father, Eliel ... In 1940, two Cranbrook teachers, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, won the Museum of Modern Art s international competition for furniture design, effectively bringing legitimacy to what American designers were doing ... Architects Charles Gwathmey, Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi and Eero Saarinen have all... (Suite101.com)
Modern design through the view finders Feb 24, 2008
One is a 1962 shot of the interior of the TWA terminal at JFK in New York, by the architect Eero Saarinen. Stoller creates an image that is a metaphor for the aerial swoop of planes and the excitement, in that era, of flight. (Boston Globe)
Ettore Sottsass Jan 7, 2008
That's what happened in postwar America when furniture companies like Herman Miller and Knoll championed such designers as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Eero Saarinen. The same scenario played out in 1960s Italy when Olivetti, Flos, Kartell and Zanotta harnessed the talent of Sottsass, Castiglioni and Colombo. (International Herald Tribune)
Airport Check-in: JetBlue's JFK plans moved up; Dallas freebies Dec 10, 2007
Designed by San Francisco-based architecture firm Gensler, the 640,000-square-foot terminal is a glass-metal structure that will sit immediately behind the empty landmark TWA terminal designed by the late Eero Saarinen. Passengers walking into the main entrance will stand on a terrazzo floor under an upward-sloping ceiling that renders a lofty feel. (USA Today -- Money)
Philadelphia: Old City shops with modern appeal Nov 9, 2007
Minima Eugenie Perret fills her sleek, white-lacquer furniture studio and gallery with a veritable who's who of modern designers: Piero Lissoni, Marc Newson, Eero Saarinen, Philippe Starck. Art exhibitions rotate, and works are often commissioned for the showroom. (CNN -- Travel)
Colleges like commodities: sell, sell, sell Nov 4, 2007
At the time, Griswold selected one of Yales own architects, Eero Saarinen, to design the two new buildings. When first built, the colleges were met with general critical acclaim, and were declared as a successful marriage of Modernist industrialism and Gothic form. (Yale Herald, CT)
* Wherefore art thou? Out of this world Sep 27, 2007
And it is almost impossible to imagine that movie, made in 1968, looking the way it did in the absence of an American space program, even with earlier influences like the spacey designer Raymond Loewy or the architect Eero Saarinen, whose curvy 1948 Womb chair looks like something made specially for Kubrick's set. In the realm of art, the influence was smaller and, usually, less direct. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The post-Sputnik years: How outer space captivated a generation Sep 26, 2007
Even so, it is difficult to imagine cinema without Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." And it is almost impossible to imagine that movie, made in 1968, looking the way it did in the absence of an American space program, even with earlier influences like the spacey designer Raymond Loewy or the architect Eero Saarinen, whose curvy 1948 Womb chair looks like something made specially for Kubrick's set. In the realm of art, the influence was smaller and, usually, less direct. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Banks make a statement with eye-catching architecture Aug 25, 2007
In fact, the town of 40,000 is becoming a place of pilgrimage for lovers of art and architecture, dotted as it is with works by I.M. Pei, who also designed the famous Louvre pyramid in Paris; Henry Moore, perhaps the most honored sculptor of the 20th century; visionary architect Eero Saarinen; and many other notables. The bank made similar investments in its own buildings. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
GROUND BREAKING Feb 4, 2007
Others are the classic work of modern architects such as Marcel Breuer and Eero Saarinen. A life-size cast of Myron s Discobolus along with numerous busts of classical figures add to the continental flavor. (Boston Globe)
The Forgotten Pioneer of Corporate Design Jan 30, 2007
The position gave Noyes a platform to promote his vision of good design, as well as the work of modernist designers including Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, and Marcel Breuer. All four submitted designs to the museum's "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition, the genesis of a 1941 exhibition. (MSNBC -- Business)
