Eliel Saarinen Biography, Furniture, Buildings, Cranbrook

Eliel Saarinen Biography

Eliel Saarinen (Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen) was born on August 20, 1873 and died on July 1, 1950. He was a Finnish architect known for his work with art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. He was the father of Eero Saarinen.

Eliel Saarinen Life And Work In Finland

Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology. From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. His first major work with the firm, the Finnish pavilion at the Paris 1900 World Fair, exhibited an extraordinary convergence of stylistic influences: Finnish wooden architecture, the British Gothic Revival, and the Jugendstil. Saarinen’s early manner was later christened the Finnish National Romanticism and culminated in the Helsinki Central railway station (designed 1904, constructed 1910-14).

From 1910 to 1915 he worked on the extensive city-planning project of Munksnäs-Haga and later published a book on the subject. In January 1911 he became a consultant in city planning for Tallinn, Estonia and was invited to Budapest to advise in city development. In 1912, a brochure written by Saarinen about the planning problems of Budapest was published. In April 1913 he received the first place award in an international competition for his plan of Reval. From 1917 to 1918 Saarinen worked on the city-plan for greater Helsinki. He also designed a series of postage stamps issued 1917 and the Finnish markka banknotes introduced in 1922.

After the divorce from his first wife, Mathilde (who then married Herman Gesellius), on March 6, 1904 Saarinen married his second wife, Louise (Loja) Gesellius, a sculptor in Helsinki, and the younger sister of Herman Gesellius. They had a daughter Eva-Lisa (Pipsan) on March 31, 1905 and a son Eero on August 20, 1910.

Eliel Saarinen Furniture

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Eliel And Eero Saarinen

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Eliel Saarinen Huonekalut

Furniture is also internationally respected examples of Finnish design from the early 20th century.

DESIGN VR Group has donated the original furniture to Eliel Saarinen’s Vilhonkadu headquarters with a move to the Design Museum and the National Museum with its headquarters. There are altogether seven gifts for furniture design to the Design Museum. The furniture received as a donation is an important addition to the museum’s previous collection of Eliel Saarinen’s production.

“In the Design Museum, we take Eliel Saarinen’s furniture out of the open, and we want to thank our VR Group for this important donation,” says superintendent Merja Vilhunen Design Museum.

Helsinki Railway Station is a unique piece of art designed by architect Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950). Saarinen won the Design Architectural Competition in 1904.

VR Group has changed the purpose of the management building to retain valuable furniture for posterity and has donated seven chairs and tables to the Museum Museum’s collections. They are representative and internationally respected examples of Finnish furniture design in the early 20th century.

The furniture is a significant complement to the collection of the Design Museum. The furniture will be preserved and will be displayed and will be visible to the public in many of our future exhibitions, Merja Vilhunen assures.

Eliel Saarinen created a number of complete works in his career, each of which always complemented each other. This is how he also worked on designing furnishings in the management building of the Railway Administration. The building employed a large number of staff, so most of the furniture was made in series production. The furniture used in the furniture was oak.

The Design Museum received the following furniture from the VR Group: two station restaurant chairs, one restaurant restaurant armchair, a marble dining table, a small 8-inch table, a heart chair and a three-lounger chair.

Eliel Saarinen Son

He married Loja Saarien and with whom they had a son and called him Eero Saarinen

Eliel Saarinen Buildings

• Helsinki Central railway station
• National Museum of Finland
• Vyborg railway station
• Hvitträsk
• Kleinhans Music Hall

Eliel Saarinen Cranbrook

Eliel Saarinen Design

Eliel Saarinen Chicago Tribune

Eliel Saarinen’s Tribune Tower design or the Saarinen tower are terms used to describe the unnamed and unbuilt design for a modernist skyscraper, created by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and submitted in 1922 for the Chicago Tribune’s architectural competition for a new headquarters. The winning entry, the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower, was built in 1925. Saarinen’s entry came in second place yet became influential in the design of a number of future buildings.

Eliel Saarinen Quotes

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

By ELIEL SAARINEN

Eliel Saarinen Hvitträsk

Hvitträsk was designed to be a studio home for the members of the Finnish architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. It later became the private residence of Eliel Saarinen. It is located about 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Helsinki in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The design was developed and construction began during the year of 1902. The house was named after Lake Vitträsk, on which it was built. [H]vitträsk literally means White Lake. Today Hvitträsk is a museum open to the public.