Eero Saarinen

Born in Finland in 1910, Eero Saarinen immigrated with his family to the United States at thirteen. Surrounded by design as a child, his father was renowned Art Deco architect Eliel Saarinen and his mother, Loja Saarinen, was a textile artist. By the time he was a teenager, Eero was designing furniture and light fixtures with his father. He studied sculpture in Paris, architecture at Yale and later attended Cranbrook in Michigan, which his father co-founded. It was at Cranbrook that Eero met Charles Eames and Florence Knoll, with whom he would create some of the most influential furniture designs of the 20th century.