As designers we are faced daily with the proposition of selecting furniture, from a seemingly endless offering. Accessible technologies have facilitated the rapid 'concept to market' proliferation of new product, feeding our design hungry culture. Only time will tell if these 'current' designs have visual and functional endurance. A chair that has maintained it's position via natural selection, is Eero Saarinen's executive chair. Getting full marks in both comfort and beauty, as much today as when it was introduced in 1957. We paired these enduring sculptural chairs with a bronze based artisan table, in this light filled breakfast room.
Saarinen executive chair 1957 |