#saarinen house

[atelierlamoureux]

Saarinen House, 1930

Architect: Eliel Saarinen

[jenniedavis]

[juliesandothings]

wall hanging view and details in the dining room of the 1920′s home of the Finnish-American architect Eliel and wife Loja Saarinen - the Saarinen House is one of the historic landmarks at Cranbrook Institute and Museums 

https://center.cranbrook.edu/visit/saarinen-house

[ajl1963]

Freakin' Tiquen 2023 - Destination Detroit Part 4 - Cranbrook

[germanpostwarmodern]

Miller House (1953-57) in Columbus, IN, USA, by Eero Saarinen. Photo by Balthazar Korab.

[skirtmag]

Conversation pit at The Miller House

[recherchestetique]

The Entenza House, also known as Case Study House #9, was designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen and completed in 1950. Located in Los Angeles, the home's living area features a wall of windows, an Eames "surfboard" table and molded plywood lounge chair. The room's flowing space is anchored by a fireplace open on two sides. (Photo: Julius Shulman 1952)

[lisamarie-vee]

[minsoos2]

Miller House and Garden, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard (Interior Design), Dan Kiley (Landscape), 1957, Columbus, IN

[wkaseke]

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 Dining Room in the president’s house at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. Designed by Finish architect Eliel Saarinen. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

[door]

1! 6! 11! 25! 26! 33! 41! 42! 48! 52! 54! 69! hoo boy that's a lot. also how's 30s

hi! oh wow that is a lot. enjoy??? (for the 30s ask meme)

gonna answer the last thing first because honestly i've loved my 30s, and since i'm going into my final year of them it seems apt to reflect. i figured out i was queer like a month before i turned 30, so my 30s have been about queerness and community, about taking risks on things that previously i thought i were too old for. i moved cities and careers, i got a masters degree, i found sooooo much friendship and interests and hobbies and got every single one of my tattoos. i am more myself now than i have ever been before. i used to joke that i had been waiting my whole life to turn 30, but i think that was true actually. getting older rules.

What was the first piece of furniture you bought?

off with a BANG. i think it was probably a knock-off saarinen tulip table i got from craigslist when i was in grad school the first time, long long ago. i think the guy had found the base (which may in fact be genuine) and he built a wooden top for it. it's lovely and i think i paid $100 for it. we don't have room for it in the current house (it's dining room sized, about 5 ft across), so it's hiding in my aunt's basement for now.

6. Most precious thing one of your pets has destroyed?

this wasn't actually one of mine, but my parents' dog punkin. the first and only thing i won at auction was a poster for the 1976 50th anniversary of the 1925 exposition des artes decoratifs (which cemented the art deco style and later contributed its name), and punkin ate it. i can still barely talk about it. looked like this:

11. What’s something you saved up for and then regretted buying?

weirdly the first thing i think of is an inflatable chair i got from kb toys in the mall when i was a kid. i thought that thing was going to change my life. it didn't. i cried. my mom helped me return it.

25. Favorite old person activity?

playing solitaire with real cards. when i was a kid, while the rest of us were rolling in the sand and getting our teeth knocked out by waves at the beach, my grandma would sit inside and play solitaire. one year i joined her. she taught me SO many varieties of solitaire and i remember em all.

26. Would you rather sit on the porch drinking sweet tea or sit by the lake drinking beers?

i don't drink alcohol so sweet tea gets my vote. lake vs porch really depends on the breeze situation, but most likely lake. i love a body of water.

33. What’s something you collect?

edward gorey books, including paperbacks he did covers for. also linda ronstadt records

41. What’s the oldest thing you own?

i don't know! i have a lot of old furniture i inherited or found in thrift stores so i really don't know how old any of that is. it might be a ring that belonged to my great-grandmother. it probably dates to the mid-19th century.

42. What’s an unjustifiably expensive appliance that you really want?

a roomba! which is unjustifiable in part because of the weirdness of our house. but how will we know until we try it!

also: this coffee grinder (unjustifiable because we have a perfectly good one already but this one is red) and this milk pan.

48. If you could build your home from scratch, what outrageous feature would you want to build into it?

A CONSERVATORY!!! i want a glasshouse i want to fill it with plants and enjoy the OUTSIDE while INSIDE. that's the dream.

but also like. so many secret passages.

52. Did your relationship with your parents get better when you stopped living with them?

i think it got worse, actually.

54. Do you decorate your house for holidays? Which ones?

i decorate the yard for halloween (full graveyard babey), but any spooky decorations that go up inside the house usually become permanent. we don't have room for anything more than stockings in the current house, but i put christmas lights up on the porch and around a doorway inside.

69. What are you looking forward to next week?

my paycheck lol

[jenniedavis]

[frenchcurious]

Charles & Ray Eames (Charles 1907-1978) (Ray 1912-1988) and Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), Case Study House #9 (Entenza House), 1945-1949. - source studiosanderpatelski.

Photo source Atomic Ranch.

[nancydrewwouldnever]

His house decor is not pretty at all

Well, I'd say he's doing better than some bachelors I've seen.

I do wish though, since he seems to like the midcentury aesthetic, that he would buy the actual vintage designer pieces (Eames, Saarinen, Mies, Knoll, etc.) instead of the knock-off pieces he has. They're a very good investment, even with use.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Miller House (1953-57) in Columbus, IN, USA, by Eero Saarinen. Photo by Balthazar Korab.