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Eliel Saarinen: Hvitträsk in Kirkkonummi,Finland (1903)
 
 
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Name: Eliel and Eero Saarinen
Variant Name: Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen
Nationality: American, Finnish
Occupations: architects, industrial designers

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Biography of Eliel and Eero Saarinen
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Eliel (1873-1950) and Eero (1910-1961) Saarinen, father and son, were Finnish-American architects and industrial designers. Eliel had a profound interest in the total idea of the city. Eero developed new structural techniques for his eclectic works....


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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2,...


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Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland – July 1, 1950, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th...


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The Washington Post
Restoring Eliel Saarinen's Home
01/06/1994: 1,101 words, approx. 4 pages
Everywhere you look in the Saarinen House, subtle harmonies of color, form, space and texture rest the eye or engage it in wonder. One alcove invites relaxed conversation. Another, reading and quiet thought. Each room has a completely different feeling by design, yet each...
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Interior Design
Saarinen House. (Eliel and Loja Saarinen's house at Cranbrook Academy of Art) (Cover Story)
12/01/1994: 88 words, approx. 1 pages
Eliel and Loja Saarinen's Cranbrook residence, completed in 1930 and recently restored, is now open to the public. When the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen came to America in the 1920s, he was poised smack in the middle of the ongoing rivalry between...
 


 

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