This week we launched our mid-century modern design series

This week on Dezeen, we kicked off our mid-century modern design series with an overview of the movement, which is showing no signs of abating after more than 70 years.

In the first of a series of profiles of mid-century modern designer, we looked back at the career of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen, whose creations were adopted as the optimistic symbols of a new post-war age.

We also spoke to author Cara Greenberg, whose book popularised the term mid-century modern series.