Sunday, Dec 6 at 12:45pm meet “like-minded” DWR (Design Within Reach) Modernists on a tour of Eero Saarinen’s Shaping the Future at the Museum of the City of New York. The tour will he led by curator Donald Albrecht. The Museum is located at 105thStreet and Fifth Avenue. This inaugural field trip is a request from DWR guests at the Mix n’ Match Greenwich function in October. Tour is included in admission and costs $12.00. Sr $10.00 Please email RSVP to mcarey@dwr.com by Dec 1, 2009 to get an idea of how many will attend.
Meet in the lobby. The tour is one hour long.
Exhibition description*
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is the first retrospective of the architect’s career, which was one of the most prolific, unorthodox and controversial in 20th century architecture. From the TWA terminal at JFK Airport and the St Louis Gateway Arch to the Pedestal Chair for Knoll Associates, Saarinen (1910-1961)created some of the most potent expressions of American identity after WWII. His clients constituted a who’s who of the era’s most prominent industries and institutions. For them he designed buildings that advanced the expansion of higher education to the promotion of the automobile and air travel, popular forms of entertainment like television and the newest information technologies. Featuring sketches, working drawings, models photographs, furnishings, films, and ephemera, the exhibition examines the architect’s career from the 1930s through the 1960s.*
