Eero Saarinen Grasshopper Chair and Footstool Set, Modernica, Mustard
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Eero Saarinen (Finnish, 1910-1961). Grasshopper Chair, Model 61, designed 1946, manufactured by Modernica, mustard woollen upholstery, supported by North American Hard Rock maple with walnut veneer frame and matching footstool (2), height 86 cm width 66 cm (chair); height 41 cm width 59 cm (footstool). Provenance: Private Collection, Sydney
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- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
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