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 from Yale University. In 1937 he began teaching at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, where he began to collaborate with Charles and Ray Eames. Saarinen reached the pinnacle of his career with the commercially successful Saarinen collection designed for Knoll International. Despite his premature death at the age of 51, Eero Saarinen had a very productive professional life.