Main entry:

Hagberg Fisher, Eva, author.

Title & Author:

When Eero met his match : Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the making of an architect / Eva Hagberg.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

xiv, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes extensive quotations from correspondence of Aline Louchheim, and some by Eero Saarinen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
(From table of contents) Preface -- Introduction, or, How to read this book -- Women in the design world, then and now -- When Aline met Eero -- On becoming a publicist -- Kresge and Ingalls: A comparison -- Why fame? -- "Bones for a 'Bird' ": publishing TWA -- On the loss of a client and friend -- "I really am not interested in that project" -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"Aline B. Louchheim (1914-1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His Match draws on the couple's personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheim's gradual takeover of Saarinen's public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights. Drawing on her own experiences as an architecture journalist on the receiving end of press pitches and then as a secret publicist for high-end architects, Eva Hagberg paints an unforgettable portrait of Louchheim while revealing the inner workings of a media world that has always relied on secrecy, friendship, and the exchange of favors. She describes how Louchheim codified the practices of architectural publicity that have become widely adopted today, and shows how, without Louchheim as his wife and publicist, Saarinen's work would not have been nearly as well known. Providing a new understanding of postwar architectural history in the United States, When Eero Met His Match is both a poignant love story and a superb biographical study that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between fame and media representation, and the ways the narratives of others can become our own"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780691206677 hardcover ; acid-free paper
0691206678 hardcover ; acid-free paper
(ebook)
9780691206684

Subject:

Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972.
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961.
Architects' spouses United States Biography.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architects Public relations.
Architectes Conjoints États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
History.
United States

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972.
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961.

Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the making of an architect

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315669
Call No.: 315669
Copy: 1
Status: Available