{"id":1027,"date":"2014-11-13T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmandfurniture.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:46:46","slug":"star-trek-chair-tulip-burke-saarinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmandfurniture.com\/2014\/11\/star-trek-chair-tulip-burke-saarinen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tulip Chair in Star Trek – putting the record straight"},"content":{"rendered":"
Updated July 2022<\/p>\n
As many a book or website will tell you, the Tulip Chair<\/a> was heavily featured in Star Trek The Original TV series<\/em><\/a> (1966-1969). The original and best Tulip Chair if you’re a design snob like me, was designed by Eero Saarinen<\/a> in 1956. But what exactly is the Star Trek chair? As previous Film and Furniture guest writer Natasha Brinsmead<\/a> says: “This modernist chair looks equally at home in a home office or living room as it does around a dining table. Part tulip, part stemmed wine glass, the chair was designed to eliminate clutter and looks perfect in both contemporary interiors and traditional, eclectic schemes alike.<\/p>\n Its futuristic good looks would have made it very at home on the U.S.S Enterprise<\/em> during the late 1960s in the TV Show Star Trek<\/em>“, but the chair, which so many have said was a Saarinen was in fact designed by Maurice Burke<\/a> of Dallas Texas and made by Arkana. The Burke Tulip chairs are the first cousins to Saarinen’s Tulip chairs. Some might say rip-off, but they got away with it on a mass scale and in fact the Burke Tulips are collectable and have value in their own right. Burke versions often have the starburst base as seen in Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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