tulip chair

noun

1. an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.

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Its contemporary objects and images — a kitchen’s Saarinen tulip chair and Alessi teapot, a bedroom’s piece of exercise equipment and a milling crowd of strangers — are rendered in parallel cross-hatching, a meticulous and vibrant technique that make them both recognizable and strange.

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Once, the furniture of the Eameses, Eero Saarinen or a clutch of Danes still stood for design innovation; now you can order a tulip chair with one click from Design Within Reach, or head to Overstock.com for a knockoff.

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Examples of modern industrial American design: Eero Saarinen’s tulip chair, a Toastmaster toaster and a “Moderne” iron.

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They are, in their own way, as organic, forward-looking and self-evident as a Brancusi sculpture, an Eero Saarinen tulip chair or a Pollock drip painting.

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In 1970 Knoll International, the firm that introduced the classic Saarinen "tulip" chair among many other designs, offered the new Held chair, a combination swivel-rocking chair made of leather-covered fiber glass with a rounded base.

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