Press Contact: Natasha Padilla, WNET, 212.560.8824, [email protected] Press Materials: http://pbs.org/pressroom or http://thirteen.org/pressroom Websites: http://pbs.org/americanmasters, http://facebook.com/americanmasters, @PBSAmerMasters, http://pbsamericanmasters.tumblr.com, http://youtube.com/AmericanMastersPBS, http://instagram.com/pbsamericanmasters, #AmericanMastersPBS American Masters Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future Premieres nationwide Tuesday, December 27 at 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) Film Interviewees (in alphabetical order) Donald Albrecht, architecture curator; created Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first- ever retrospective of Saarinen, which toured museums in Europe and the United States from 2006–2010, and wrote the exhibit book with Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Niels Diffrient (now deceased), industrial designer, knew Saarinen and his father Eliel since the Cranbrook faculty days and the Saarinens’ firm, worked with Eero on some of the most iconic furniture designs of the 20 th century Paul Goldberger, architecture critic Cathleen McGuigan, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, author of an upcoming biography of architecture critic Aline Saarinen, Eero’s second wife Jayne Merkel, author of the monograph Eero Saarinen Jeffrey Osborne, design and marketing consultant associated with Knoll Furniture for 20 years César Pelli, architect, worked with Saarinen from his earliest years