Another quick note on the Italian hospital posing as Roger Sterling’s office! His young bride might not know how to handle her liquor, but she’s clearly got an eye for architectural trends. His desk chair is an Eames, and the others are Eero Saarinen tulip chairs. Saarinen, a Finnish architect, is best-known for his simple, sweeping, arching structural curves—St. Louis arch, anyone?
He died in 1961, and a year later his masterpiece was open to the public—the TWA terminal at JFK airport, a structure Yale Architecture dean Robert A.M. Stern called ‘the Grand Central of the Jet Age’.
One can hardly think of a designer whose ethos is more suited to support (literally!) our SCDP comrades as they march into the future.
*Footnote by Angela Serratore
I used to work with Eero’s son and he had set up a tulip table and chairs in the open area of his office. Often at night after everyone was gone I’d sit at the table in one of those beautiful, nice chairs and do my creative work while daydreaming of the day when I’d have my very own table and set of chairs.
Whenever I talk to architects, the conversation always leads to Eero’s work and everyone agrees that he is one of the most underrated masters.
