Eye Magazine Reviews Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman

November 19, 2013

Eye Magazine, the international quarterly review of graphic design for artists and designs professionals, reviews Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman, a book that highlights the Finnish architect's furniture designs, including those for Knoll.

Steven Heller of Eye Magazine writes: "Brian Lutz’s Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman will appeal to all designers.  It is a heavy book and needs to be read on a table (preferably a pedestal table). But read it you must: don’t just look at the pictures.”

Heller also highlights Saarinen's work for Knoll, which is illustrated through" Knoll graphics, by Herbert Matter and others, used to promote and catalogue the furniture."

"My favorite image shows Florence Knoll, a close friend of Saarinen, casually sitting in the unfinished prototype of the Womb chair, which used ‘paperclip’ legs for the first time," Heller writes.

The book, which was released in October 2012, also features a preface by Florence Knoll Bassett.  She writes: “He was the most particular of all the designers I worked with, always concerned with every little detail and every little form.  His contributions to the modern era are unmatched by any of his contemporaries.”