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2022-08-03
Architecture kitokino architecture composes ‘anjou house’ as three linked blocks in suburban japan In theRead More →
Clรฉment Mรจre (1861 – 1940) French, designer and furniture maker
2022-09-26
Clรฉment Mรจre was born in Bayonne and active in Paris. He was a French painter, table-builder, artist and furniture builder.
He studied painting with Jean-Lรฉon Gรฉrรดme at the รcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Read More →
Dan Svarth ( b.1942) – Danish furniture designer
2022-09-26
Dan Svarth is a Danish designer. He studied at the Kunsthรฅndvrรฆrkerskolen, Copenhagen, to 1967, furniture design, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, to 1969. Read More →
Quinta armchair (1985) designed by Mario Botta
2022-09-26
Mario Botta’s chair Quinta (Fifth) shares the same obvious structural rigour and continuous frame as tubular-steel chairs designed in the 1920s. Read More →
Vendo 44 – Cokes 1950s retro classic vending machine
2022-09-26
The Vendo 44 Coca-Cola bottle vending machine was produced between 1956 and 1959. Despite being only 16 wide, 15.5 deep, and 58 high, it could fit 44 bottles of coke. It has a white top and a heavy gauge steel case with bright red enamel.Read More →
La Danese Italian domestic goods manufacturer
2022-09-26
La Danese was founded in Milan by Bruno Danese and Jacqueline Vodoz. The company specialised in editing, designing, and marketing wellโdesigned everyday products with a modern aesthetic. There were three significant focus areas: domestic and office products, artistic editions, and children’s games and creative play stimuli. Read More →
Susie Cooper (1902 – 1995) British ceramicist and designer
2022-09-26
Breakfast in an American middle-class home in the 1940s was often served on dishes designed by English designer Susie Cooper (1902-1995).Read More →
Adelaide Robineau (1865 – 1929) an American Ceramicist
2022-09-26
Adelaide Romineau was an American ceramicist she was born in Middletown, Connecticut. At the time, few women were involved in the technical aspects of ceramic production. It was considered appropriate for women to be decorators only, rather than to be part of more technical pursuits.Read More →
Typography Glossary – Design Terms
2022-09-25
It helps to have an appropriate language to talk about typography.ย The following is a glossary of some of the words and their definitions that are used to described typography.Read More →
Shagreen – Design Term
2022-09-25
Shagreen is fish skin used as a veneer to cover furniture and accessories. Also knownRead More →
What is Wrought Iron?
2022-09-25
The term “wrought iron” refers to the material rather than the products made of iron. Modern mild steel has supplanted wrought iron, a forgeable ferrous material used up until about the middle of the twentieth century. Because of the extensive forming required during its productionโunder power hammers and through rollersโit was originally referred to as “wrought” (or “worked”). Read More →
SS. Normandie Art Deco Palace
2022-09-25
The ship, its decor, and furniture reflected everything stylish, sophisticated, forward-thinking, and French when it was launched in the age of grand style, a decade after the successful exposition of modern design at the 1925 Paris exhibition.Read More →
Raymond Subes (1893 – 1970) French metalsmith
2022-09-25
Raymond Subes (1893โ1970) was a French metalsmith. He made ironwork for the oceanliners 1931 Atlantique, 1926 Ile-de-France, Pasteur, and 1935 Normandie. After World War II, he worked as a metalworker and became the head of Borderel et Robert.Read More →
Guilloche two banded decorative motif
2022-09-25
The guilloche is a decorative element that encircles a line of bosses with two bands or ribbons intertwined. In the British Regency style, it was particularly well-liked and adopted by furniture designers from Renaissance to the Twenties and Fifties.Read More →
Lรฉon Jallot (1874 – 1967) French designer and artisan.
2022-09-25
Lรฉon Jallot (1874ยญ-1967), a scion of the French Art Nouveau, stood out within the movement as an รฉbรฉniste, or cabinet maker.Read More →
World Atlas of Coffee – Beans to Brewing
2022-09-24
World Atlas of Coffee. Coffee has never been better or more interesting than it is today. Where coffee comes from, how it was harvested and the roasting process are just a few factors that influence the taste of what we drink. Champion barista and coffee expert James Hoffmann examines these key factors.Read More →
Georg Arthur Jensen silverware designer and manufacturer
2022-09-24
Georg Jensen was a Danish metalworker. He was born in Faavad. He was apprenticed as a goldsmith. cl895-1901, he studied sculpture, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen. Read More →
Helen Abson (b.1942) Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2022-09-23
Helen Abson, who trained as an architect, is an Australian designer. She pursued architecture for five years; founded ZAB Design where she designed fabrics that exhibited a preoccupation for texture achieved through pattern and colour.Read More →
Rhode Island School of Design – Prestigious Design Education
2022-09-23
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877 and now offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in 19 different fields. It is affiliated with Brown University, with which it shares a College Hill campus.Read More →
Cassone – the marriage chest
2022-09-22
A cassone is a big decorated chest that was made in Italy between the 14th and 16th centuries. In 1472, a Florentine merchant married a young noblewoman named Vaggia Nerli. Cassoni were put on display in the most important and well-furnished room in the palace.Read More →
Chaise Lounge by Marcel Breuer
2022-09-22
Marcel Breuer designed this chaise lounge during his influential period in England (1935-37). His work for the London-based design and architectural firm Isokon is the most recognizable of this period. The chaise was designed for the 1936 Seven Architects Exhibition for Heal & Sons Department Store.Read More →