Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish architect and designer. Born in Helsinki in 1910, in 1923 he moved with his family to the United States, where in 1934 he graduated in Architecture at Yale University. He studied sculpture in Paris in the late 1920s and in 1937 began teaching at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, where collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames. Saarinen reaches the pinnacle of his career with the undisputedly commercially successful Saarinen collection designed for Knoll International. Despite his untimely death at the age of 51, Eero Saarinen had a very productive professional life. His career is to be considered very important both for the activity of designer and architect. Working in his father's studio and on his own, Saarinen was in fact involved in the realization of many architectural projects, signing some of the most significant buildings in the American post-war panorama, such as the TWA (Trans World Airline) terminal at John F. Kennedy of New York.