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Mobile Lounge. For air travelers who would rather ride than walk those last few feet to the plane, Washington's new Chantilly Airport (completion date: 1961) plans something called "mobile departure lounges." Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...
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...Proud Possessors, Saarinen...
...past 20 years, industrial designers have become a self-conscious coterie, well paid and well content with their mission : to save mankind from ugliness in man-made products. The work of such men as Henry Dreyfuss, Ward Bennett and Raymond Loewy in Manhattan and Eero Saarinen (who is both architect and designer) in Detroit has raised industrial design from a mechanical slough of vulgarity. For in the early years of mass production, the sound design of artisans gave way to the cheaply pretentious. The craftsmanlike simplicity of early American furniture was displaced by curlicues and overstuffing, and bathtubs took...
With eleven products in the museum's haughtily thoughtful collection, and four in the show itself, Designer Charles Eames dominated the scene. The great Finn, Eliel Saarinen (Eero's father), took...