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Armchair
Plastic

Designed by Eero Saarmen (1910-1961)
Manufactured by Knoll Associates,
New York City, 1956

Purchase with funds from the Decorative
Arts Acquisition Trust, 1980.1000.25

With his famous platic pedestal tables and
chairs, Eero Saarinen strove for a design of
visual and material unity. While the materials
are not actually of a single, unified piece-the
base had to be made of cast aluminum in order
to support the chair - the visual effect is one of
harmony and simplicity.