Eero Saarinen
(Finnish-American, 1910–1961)
Womb Chair and Ottoman, 1946 / c. 1970
for Knoll International, USA
chrome-plated steel, foam, upholstery
36 h × 39½ w × 34 d in. | chair
Property from the Estate of Pierre Robert, WMMR disc jockey, Philadelphia
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, pg. 73 Knoll: A Modernist Universe, Lutz, pg. 116
Atlas of Furniture Design, Vitra Design Museum, ppg. 400-401