Air Architecture - Yves Klein with the collaboration of Claude Parent - 1961
“In the end it is an old dream of mankind and of the imagination to play with the elements of nature, to direct and to control their phenomena and manifestations. (…) Yves Klein’s walls of fire and water are, along with the roofs of air, the materials for the construction of a new architecture. With the three classic elements – fire, air, and water – the classic city of tomorrow will be constructed and will finally be flexible, spiritual, and immaterial. The idea in space, of using pure energy as a material for construction for mankind, no longer seems absurd in this order of thinking.
Eero Saarinen, Tulip chair, 1957-63. Plastic/fiberglass, Knoll International, USA. Last pic: Florence Knoll and Saarinen working on a prototype.
Part of the Pedestal collection of furniture, whose objective was to rid rooms of a “forest of furniture legs.” Original price was $110.00 (non-swivel base) + 2/3 yard fabric “to make the chair all one thing again”. Saarinen had originally intended to be a sculptor, and he strove for sculptural shapes in the furniture he designed for this collection. Via Goldstein Design Museum.
Air Architecture - Yves Klein with the collaboration of Claude Parent - 1961
“In the end it is an old dream of mankind and of the imagination to play with the elements of nature, to direct and to control their phenomena and manifestations. (…) Yves Klein’s walls of fire and water are, along with the roofs of air, the materials for the construction of a new architecture. With the three classic elements – fire, air, and water – the classic city of tomorrow will be constructed and will finally be flexible, spiritual, and immaterial. The idea in space, of using pure energy as a material for construction for mankind, no longer seems absurd in this order of thinking.
Eero Saarinen, Tulip chair, 1957-63. Plastic/fiberglass, Knoll International, USA. Last pic: Florence Knoll and Saarinen working on a prototype.
Part of the Pedestal collection of furniture, whose objective was to rid rooms of a “forest of furniture legs.” Original price was $110.00 (non-swivel base) + 2/3 yard fabric “to make the chair all one thing again”. Saarinen had originally intended to be a sculptor, and he strove for sculptural shapes in the furniture he designed for this collection. Via Goldstein Design Museum.
