Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Sure, Barack Obama taught there from 1992 to 2004. But there's another reason to check out the University of Chicago Law School, especially if you love mid-century modernism.
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Bob Weinstein and Eric Hensley are mid-century lovers through and through. Their home holds pieces from big names like Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson, Arne Jacobsen, Vladimir Kagan an
Archinect (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
This book is a timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture. Eero Saarinen and Balthazar Korab constitute a unique team in the history of architecture: Saarinen, the mid-twentieth-century architect who challenged the architectural conventions of his time, and Korab, an architect in Saarinen's office whose perceptive photographs reveal the brilliance...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Witold Rybczynski in Slate: Much to the critics' chagrin, Saarinen's work did not follow a straight-line trajectory. Unlike his contemporaries'??Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Minoru Yamasaki, and Edward Durell Stone???he did not stick to one style but went off in different,...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Slate's Witold Rybczynski presents a nice little slide show on the work of Eero Saarinen.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Rediscovering Saarinen, the man behind the Gateway Arch, Dulles, and some really comfy chairs. [more …] Share This
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Rediscovering Saarinen, the man behind the Gateway Arch, Dulles, and some really comfy chairs. [ more ... ]
Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Yesterday we were snapping photos of an apartment for an upcoming house tour and were pleasantly surprised to find that the house cat (his name is Eero, after Eero Saarinen) had gotten into a few shot
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Originally designed in 1940 for the Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition, the Organic Highback Chair by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen was hugely influential on chair design throughout the following 50+ years. Back in 1940, the chair never actually...
Freshome (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Nelson Coconut Chair is a chair that has an innovative design, and an innovative shape. Intended to combine comfort with freedom of movement, the shape of the Coconut Chair’s white molded shell was inspired by the shape of Eero Saarinen's Kresge Auditorium at MIT. Echoing both the auditorium's triangular shape, as well as a portion [...]
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
TWA Terminal When Eero Saarinen, the architect who designed both Dulles International Airport and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, described the state of his profession in 1959, it sounded a lot like our own architecturally muddled times: Our surroundings, he observed, “have become total chaos.” Saarinen, who is the subject of an absorbing retrospective at the [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The breadth of Eero Saarinen's practice, his fondness for "iconic" forms, his forays into furniture and design, his fame -- all of this feels very familiar. Another quick bullet point for this exhibition might be: Eero Saarinen, the first "starchitect."...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Eero Saarinen designed not only the pioneering Washington Dulles International Airport air terminal, but also other icons of the mid-20th-century - the St. Louis Gateway Arch, CBS "Black Rock"...
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Dear AT, I found this awesome mid century Burke task chair in great condition! The chair is white fiberglass with a metal base and wood accent and has casters. It doesn't have an original cushion
sellsius° real estate blog (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
I coined the term unzillowable in this post on August 13, 2006 and described it the next day in this post. The first real estate listing to use the word was by Jay Thompson in Arizona. Unzillowable, adjective (un zil’ o bull): unable to be valued by the popular website zillow.com. “This state-of-the-art mansion in Texas, [...]
