The Tulip Chair consists of a reinforced plastic and aluminum stem with a curved fiberglass shell.

needlepoint seating pads on the Tulip chairs

A custom table surrounded by NET’s Museo chairs and poplar stools provides a space for the Sarmiento Tovo boys, Manuel, 5, and Julián, 3, to play with the toys their mother makes.

Saarinen Tulip Chair from Knoll

The Vitra Miniature Collection presents important modern furniture classics in a smaller size. Although more petite than the full-size originals, each part of the Vitra Minature series is an exact 1:6 replica of the historical design, including the construction, materials, and colors. The Tulip Chair is an exact miniature of Eero Saarinen’s original design, which won the Museum of Modern Art Award in 1969, among others. The complete Vitra Miniature Collection is currently on sale for 15% off at the Dwell Store until 10/26/2014.

The Vitra Miniature Collection presents important modern furniture classics in a smaller size. This Tulip Chair is an exact 1:6 replica of Eero Saarinen’s original design, including the materials, construction, and colors. This miniature is a great way to give the gift of midcentury modern without breaking the bank.

An archival shot of the Tulip Chairs in production at the Knoll factory.

Lange reads the newspaper in a vintage Pierre Paulin Little Tulip chair for Artifort.

The dining room features 1970s leather-and-brass dining chairs and a table concocted from a brass-and-silver base and a custom lacquered top. The cheerful blue paint enlivening the doorway is from Emery & Cie.

Saarinen at work on the Pedestal model. He started with hundreds of drawings, and moved on to ¼ scale models, which were then set up in a room the size of a dollhouse.

Though Saarinen completed the design in 1956, the patent drawing for the Tulip Chair was filed on June 7, 1960.

Visitors pass by a sentry wall of lamps from Design House Stockholm on their way to the airy living-dining room with its 52 windows.

The house is filled with pieces from Small-Design, the children’s furniture company cofounded by Charrier, including the transformable Cube, which does double duty as a chair or table in the top floor kitchen-dining area.

In a renovated Tribeca loft, Eames shell chairs surround a Saarinen Tulip table from Knoll. The Line console is from Design Within Reach and the pendant light is Louis Poulsen's Snowball. While architect Matthew Miller of New York firm StudioLAB gutted the space, some of the original details—like the windows—remain. The rug is from ABC Home.

Tubular steel Paperclip stools from Kinetics, whose sculptural forms were inspired by their eponymous office accessory, stand next to the kitchen island.

This open-concept Amsterdam loft features soaring 15-foot ceilings, an Eames lounge chair and ottoman, and a Jielde light. Throughout the home, Standard Studio architects Wouter Slot and Jurjen van Hulzen favored raw materials, including concrete, oiled oak, and hot-rolled steel, all of which complemented the original space's industrial feel. Tucked smartly underneath the loft, a compact home office features functional built-in shelving and an Eames DSR chair.

Bornstein and his daughter Velma sit at a table the architect designed himself; the dining chairs were designed by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen.

Homeowner Susanna prefers a motley set of dining chairs over a coordinated set; that way, guests can pick their favorite when they sit. Photo by: Petra Bindel

The chairs and end table in the living room are of Eric’s design.

A small office for Dorothee, furnished with a desk by German architect Egon Eiermann and an Eames chair, overlooks the street.

This "local prefab" home on the Isle of Skye is made mostly from materials sourced in northern Scotland. The timber-framed model, meant to evoke the simple agrarian barns of the area, can be constructed on-site in as little as a day and is designed for affordability.

He designed the retro-modern chairs, too.

Toffel Chair by 608 Design “We’ve worked with Evan Bare from 608 for a number of years. Great examples of clean design and structure.” -- Julie Nicholson “It sort of shows this ‘Canadiana’ style, but it’s more an example of someone working in a forward-thinking way that’s almost Scandinavian. There’s lots of thoughtfulness in that piece.” -- Shaun Moore

An assortment of office chairs.

Chair Necessities The couple’s four Chair One dining chairs by Konstantin Grcic for Magis are among their most prized possessions. They had been given their dining table as a wedding gift but couldn’t afford enough chairs to surround it, so they opted for a wooden bench on one side and the Grcic chairs on the other. Davor says he’s pleased they purchased the chairs early in the design process before the budget got really tight. magisdesign.com

The Tulip Lamp, with a base of metal rods, was designed in 2007.

In the living room, interior designer Meredith Rebolledo of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley paired pieces like Philippe Starck’s Eros chairs for Kartell and two 1960s Swedish chairs with the client’s Oushak rug.

By creating a desk out of roof beams, this home office perfectly integrates into an open-plan renovation of a Northern Italian farmhouse.

Konstantin Grcic’s Venus chairs for ClassiCon surround a table by Poliform in the formal dining room. Hill selected the Flos chandelier designed by Marcel Wanders for its "Old World reverence." The sleek fireplace mantel was designed by Hill and cobbled together onsite from three solid slabs of limestone.

A Clement Meadmore Sling chair provides a favorite vantage point for sipping coffee while looking out at Hanging Rock. “It’s always hard to leave and return to the city,” Titania says.

The dining table, made from a single piece of teak, is a little over 13 feet long and was custom made for the space. It can seat up to 24.

In the living room, an Eames lounge chair is matched with a Richard Conover–designed fiberglass chair in similar proportions. A custom coffee table by Asher Israelow com-plements the industrial lighting by Workstead, affixed to walls painted in Farrow and Ball’s Manor House Gray. The sliding doors leading into the home office were fabricated by Markus Bartenschlager.

Black and white kitchen cabinets painted with a triangular pattern add a whimsical touch to this funky kitchen.

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