Eliel Saarinen

Architect

Finnish architect who designed buildings, furniture and textiles as wholes, first in Finland and then in the United States.

Eliel Saarinen built Helsinki Central Station and, with two colleagues, the studio home Hvitträsk, whose furniture they also designed.

In the United States he led the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where his son Eero and many other designers trained.

• Hvitträsk