Furniture was Eero Saarinen's chance to do something independent of his famous father. In 1940, he and Eames entered a Museum of Modern Art competition for home furnishings and won first prize with a molded plywood chair. Six years later, Florence, now married to Hans Knoll, with whom she had started a furniture company, challenged Saarinen: "I want a chair I can sit in sideways or any other way I want to sit in it," she told him. The result was the Knoll Model 70 Chair, the so-called Womb Chair (right). Since molded plywood proved too heavy, Saarinen devised a two-piece, folded, resin-bonded fiber shell, covering it with foam padding and upholstery. A small pillow supported the back. It is an ingenious solution: economic, comfortable, and pragmatically designed (the fiber shell is perched on a steel frame). Entirely unpolemical compared with some modern chairs, it is also sculpturally beautiful. The Womb Chair was introduced by Knoll in 1948 and has been in production for 60 years.