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...first commercial airport to be designed specifically for jets, Dulles and its mobile lounges are the creation of the late Eero Saarinen. He was a thorough man. When he was asked to submit a design, Saarinen sent out researchers armed with stop watches and counting clickers to "see what people really do at airports, how far they walk, their interchange problems." The results of his findings were dramatized by longtime Saarinen Friend Charles Eames-for the benefit of the FAA and airline officials who needed convincing about mobile lounges-in a ten-minute cartoon film whose sound track featured...
...dedication of Washington's $110 million Dulles International Airport, some 50,000 people gathered to stare at the soaring lines of the Saarinen-designed terminal building and honor the memory of the man for whom the airport is named: onetime Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. President Kennedy was on hand and so was Ike, who described his old friend as "a man who spent most of his life serving the cause of his country and world peace...
Dean Goodwin, "all they have to do is keep walking and they'll come back to where they started." Other notable round buildings for religion in the U.S.: Frank Lloyd Wright's Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation near Milwaukee, Saarinen's chapels at M.I.T. and Drake University, William Hidell's St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Dallas...
...Other credits: San Francisco Banker Derek Parmenter's retreat was done by Designer John Garden Campbell, and the glass-walled pavilion near Inverness, Calif., by Francis E. Leighton. Lily Saarinen's Cape Cod cabin is by Olav Hammarstrom, the Pound Ridge home of John Straus by Edward L. Barnes, and Burton Tremaine's house in Madison, Conn., was converted by Philip C. Johnson...
...pleasure dome cost $200,000, including carpets and furnishings: Barcelona chairs, Eero Saarinen pedestal tables, sectional sofas on wall-to-wall carpeting. All of these fittings were made in India, but they are basically American in design: there, at least, Fatemeh got something that might grace a ranch house...