Tulip Armchair

Architecture and Design

1955/57

Eero Saarinen
American, born Finland, 1910–1961
Manufactured by Knoll International, Inc.
American, founded 1938
East Greenville, Pennsylvania

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: Eero Saarinen (Designer)
Title: Tulip Armchair
Place: East Greenville (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1955–1957
Medium: Fiberglass-reinforced plastic and lacquered aluminum with silk upholstery
Inscriptions: Cast raised inscription on base: "BR 50"
Dimensions: 80.7 × 65.7 × 58.4 cm (31 3/4 × 25 7/8 × 23 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Knoll International
Reference Number: 1971.15

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 97–98, cat. 29.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of CHicago, From World War I to 1955, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 183.

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