But there is still the reality that not every Saarinen building was an unqualified success.
Saarinen's furniture designs are displayed on a platform at the start of the show.
Two years ago, Charlie invited my father to visit the Saarinen renovations in progress.
Saarinen embraced historical precedent and sensuous effect, the taboos of modernism, as eagerly as he adopted new technology.
Diane Saarinen, a 48-year-old living in Brooklyn, recently became a Finnish citizen in homage to her deceased parents.
The meetup kicked off with a four-course dinner prepared by local chefs at a Saarinen built structure on the island park Belle Isle.
In 1956, TWA commissioned Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer, to design its flight center at Idlewild (renamed JFK in 1963).
More than a building, Saarinen carved a fully designed experience for the traveler, gracefully transporting passengers from the ground to the sky and back again.
Eliel and Eero Saarinen, a father-and-son pair of architects and designers.
Embassies built in Oslo and London emerged from dozens of sketches that explored some truly alarming possibilities in Saarinen's attempt to find a contemporary symbolism to replace traditional formulas.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad two years ago, he did so in a living-room setting with a Corbusier armchair and a Saarinen side table, framing the tablet as a device of leisure.
Saarinen grew up speaking Finnish and spending childhood summers playing with lambs and cows in the Scandinavian countryside, and she began to miss that part of her identity without her parents to keep it alive.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach, and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
It's one thing to capture the elastic vitality of Saarinen's winged TWA Terminal or the swirling ramparts at Wright's Marin County Civic Center, but to uncover an equivalent dynamism at SOM's Connecticut General Life Insurance headquarters in a bland park in Bloomfield, Conn.
Or you can fire up the computer and surf over to online furniture outlet Design Within Reach (nasdaq: DWRI - news - people ), and shop for one of the graceful chairs designed by the Finnish genius Eero Saarinen--he died in 1961--that are crudely echoed on the Jetsons.
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