The Mid-Century Modernist: Saarinen Tulip Table and Eames DCM Chairs
There's something very fitting about mixing the Scandinavian designers and Eames. I love the grouping above.
In my own kitchen, however, I have the opposite approach: Four Jacobsen Series 7 chairs grouped around a vintage Eames aluminum group table.
I like'em both.
Henningsen, Saarinen, Jacobsen....
I found the four Jacobsen Series Seven chairs (complete with a tattered piece of a Fritz Hansen label on the underside of one seat) at a sidewalk sale in the Castro, painted flat-mud brown by, apparently, somebody using a toothbrush to smear on the paint. Sixty bucks and some elbow grease later....
Which brings up another nice thing about MCM furniture: There's quite a bit of it still around, and there are quite a few people who regard it as junk. That won't always be the case, so enjoy it - and take advantage of it - while you can.
