The Saarinen Tulip Dining Table

Architect, furniture designer, friend of Florence Knoll and son of Eliel, Eero Saarinen was anything but a leg man. He designed his iconic Tulip table in 1956 in order to “clear up the slum of legs in the U.S. home.” I suppose a typical table and chair set for four in a U.S. eat-in kitchen would have had about 20 legs, whereas if you splurged for the entire Saarinen Tulip set you’d have only had five legs total.