Eero Saarinen designed "Tulip" stool for the Knoll Furniture Group in 1956. This aluminum cast stool features its original white polyurethane enamel finish with a newly covered black seat.
Eero Saarinen designed the 1956 Tulip collection in terms of its setting, rather than a particular shape, stating, "In any design problem, one should seek the solution in terms of the next largest thing...If the problem is a chair, then its solution must be found in the way it relates to the room..." In Tulip, Saarinen realized his ideal of formal unity: "Every significant piece of furniture has a holistic structure." Winner of the 1969 Museum of Modern Art Award, the Tulip is Saarinen's genius solution to clearing up the "slum of legs" that populates the under-carriage of most dining sets.