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The so-called Saarinen House was erected in 1912, for a bank called in Estonian Krediidipank. Despite his astonishing success during a short career, Saarinen's influence was perhaps not fully recognized until recently, as the donation of Roche and Dinkeloo's Saarinen archives to Yale in 2005 helped lead to a surge of interest in his designs in the past decade.The internationally known Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen designed one of the most beautiful buildings in the centre of Tallinn. Saarinen died in 1961, aged just 51, during an operation to remove a brain tumor, leaving his then-partners Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo to complete many of his important works (including the St Louis Arch), and to go on to have very successful careers of their own. Image © Flickr user janela_da_alma licensed under CC BY 2.0

Architecturally, however, Saarinen had been quietly building up a name for himself while working with his father's company, attracting international praise for Crow Island School (1940). Eero first attracted attention while working with his father, particularly for his furniture design with Charles Eames, and he continued to produce influential furniture designs throughout his career the Tulip Chair which he designed for Knoll, for example, has become known as a classic piece of design, as have many other of his pieces in the late 1940s and early 50s. Eero followed in the family tradition, studying design under his father at Cranbrook Academy of Art before moving to study in Paris at the end of the 1920s and then the Yale School of Architecture, from which he graduated in 1934. Saarinen was born in Finland and spent his childhood there before his father Eliel's architecture work took the family to the United States.

Image by Balthazar Korab in public domain