In 1956, TWA commissioned Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer, to design its flight center at Idlewild (renamed JFK in 1963).
Farther uptown, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, "Finnish Modern Design, 1930-1997" (up through June 14), is a perfect complement to the Aalto retrospective.