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...friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just before deadline. Saarinen was never tardy because of carelessness; it was merely that he was such a perfectionist that he could not let a plan out of his office until the very last moment. As he himself said, he worked "in elephant time." But before his death last week...
...father, Eliel. was Finland's top architect. Fortunately, he was also a warmhearted man who did everything he could to encourage his little "Poju" (Sonny) when the boy began to show a talent for drawing. In 1923, when Eero was twelve, Eliel decided to move to the U.S. Young Eero went through the Yale School of Architecture, and in time he and his father went into partnership...
Contemporary Jungle. Only ultramodern Kennedy home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because...
Tested last week at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., which opens for business next year, was a mobile lounge, an innovation credited to Eero Saarinen that should make plane waiting a bit more pleasant. After checking in at the ticket counter, the passenger goes to the proper loading gate, which is really the wide doorway into the lounge. The lounge (54 ft. long, 17½ ft. high and 16 ft. wide) has comfortable chairs, tinted windows, piped-in music and air conditioning. At take-off time, it is driven to the waiting plane parked on the runway. The lounge...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...