- Product:
- Elbow chair
- Manufacturer:
- Christie`s
- Architonic ID:
- 4102476
- Launched:
- 1908
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
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Key facts
Product description
Designed 1908-09, one of 14 examples executed for the State Railway Administration offices, Helsinki mainline station, oak and oak-faced laminate.
32in. (82cm.) height; 241⁄2in. (82.5cm.) width; 21in. (53cm.) depth
Gottleib Eliel Saarinen studied Fine Art at the University of Helsinki and architecture at the Helsinki Polytechnic, graduating in 1897. His early style of architecture was influenced by both the Glasgow School and the Vienna Seccession, and he later became a leading exponent of the National Romantic movement. Only seven years after graduating, Saarinen was in 1904 awarded first prize for his competition entry for Helsinki railway station. The bold massing of architectural form, with a tall clock tower overlooking the railway sidings and monolithic neo-romantic torch-bearing figures guarding the main entrance, immediately established Saarinen as a powerful and muscular architect at the forefront of modern Finnish architecture. The Railway Administration element of the station was begun in 1905, and completed in 1909, for which Saarinen specified 14 elbow chairs, and 423 ladder-back chairs.
Lit: Marika Hausen (ed.), Eliel Saarinen, Projects 1896-1909, Helsinki, 1990, p.168 (the design illustrated), pp.161-169 (discussion of station project, p.234 (discussion of quantities of furniture manufactured)
An example of this design was exhibited Jugend, Designmuseo, Helsinki, 9 May - 21 September 2003
32in. (82cm.) height; 241⁄2in. (82.5cm.) width; 21in. (53cm.) depth
Gottleib Eliel Saarinen studied Fine Art at the University of Helsinki and architecture at the Helsinki Polytechnic, graduating in 1897. His early style of architecture was influenced by both the Glasgow School and the Vienna Seccession, and he later became a leading exponent of the National Romantic movement. Only seven years after graduating, Saarinen was in 1904 awarded first prize for his competition entry for Helsinki railway station. The bold massing of architectural form, with a tall clock tower overlooking the railway sidings and monolithic neo-romantic torch-bearing figures guarding the main entrance, immediately established Saarinen as a powerful and muscular architect at the forefront of modern Finnish architecture. The Railway Administration element of the station was begun in 1905, and completed in 1909, for which Saarinen specified 14 elbow chairs, and 423 ladder-back chairs.
Lit: Marika Hausen (ed.), Eliel Saarinen, Projects 1896-1909, Helsinki, 1990, p.168 (the design illustrated), pp.161-169 (discussion of station project, p.234 (discussion of quantities of furniture manufactured)
An example of this design was exhibited Jugend, Designmuseo, Helsinki, 9 May - 21 September 2003