$290.00
The Tulip Chair is one of a series of chairs, stools, and tables designed by Eero Saarinen within a five-year period. The characteristic feature of the series is that the supporting structure has been pared to a central supporting stem "like a wineglass" in order to emphasise the uniformity of the table and chair.
Eero Saarinen describes the Tulip Chair: "The bases of tables and chairs in a typical furniture arrangement create an ugly, confusing, and restless world. I wanted to design a chair as an integrated whole once again. All important furniture of the past always had a holistic structure, from King Tut’s chair to the chairs of Thomas Chippendale. Today, we are parting ways with this holism with our predilection for plastic and laminated wood shells. I am looking forward to the point when the plastics industry will be capable of manufacturing the chair using just one material, the way I have designed it."
This Vitra miniature chair ships in a small wooden Vitra box which is perfect for storage or display.$410.00
Vitra Miniatures Collection. Miniature scale model of Eero Aarnio's Ball Chair. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand! With its simple, striking shape and its bright colors Eero Aarnio's Ball Chair is a typical symbol of the optimistic, consumer oriented popular culture of...
$805.00
Vitra Miniatures Collection. Miniature scale model of Albini's Gala Chair. Franco Albini was one of the leading protagonists of Italian Neorationalism. His work offers profound insights into an important movement in Italian architecture and design during the 1950's. The scarcity of materials during the early...
$865.00
Vitra Miniatures Collection. Produced and distributed by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein/Germany after an original model by One Off Ltd., London. With the kind permission of Ron Arad, London. All rights reserved. In 1988 and 1989, Arad’s London "One Off" work shop created an...
$230.00
Vitra Miniatures Collection. Miniature scale model of Ron Arad's Tom Vac Chair. The Tom Vac Chair, or T. Vac Chair as it is also called, was designed by Ron Arad in 1999. It is one of the few Ron Arad classics that were designed with...