Christine Van der Hurd, a British textile designer, creates bespoke textiles with abstract motifs, blending screen printing and hand embroidery in her New York and London-based studio.Read More →
Flavio Poli, renowned for pioneering the ‘Sommerso’ technique at Seguso Vetri d’Arte, created bold glass designs that profoundly influenced Italian glassware and art, remaining highly collectible today. Read More →
Pollack invented a tubular steel stacking chair, model RP7, which was manufactured from c1932 and revolutionised auditorium seating with its stacking concept. Cox, a British furniture maker, was embroiled in a legal battle with rival Pel in 1934 over the Rp6 stacking chair, which Pel had bought the rights from Pollack.Read More →
Charles Pollock (1930-2013) was an iconic American industrial designer known for the sleek and innovative Pollock Chair, held together by a single aluminium band. Read More →
Bernhard Howell Leach, a British ceramicist, studied art in England and Japan. He later founded a pottery in St Ives, influenced by Japanese techniques.Read More →
One of the foremost universities in Vienna, Austria, is TU Wien (TUW; German: Technische Universität Wien; also known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014). The University has gained comprehensive international and domestic recognition in both teaching and science and is a highly respected partner of innovation-oriented enterprises.Read More →
After 1865, as industrialisation accelerated and consumer products proliferated, producers were forced to concentrate on product appearance. Ordinary people desired comfort, even luxury: patent furniture, opulent home interiors, and eclectic mail-order products. Read More →
“The Male Nude: A Modern View” explores the historical transformation of male nudity in art, highlighting pivotal shifts, artist contributions, techniques, controversies, and the evolving portrayal of masculinity.Read More →
“Glyph” by Adriana Caneva and Shiro Nishimoto explores the history and usage of punctuation marks in the Latin alphabet, appealing to linguists and design enthusiasts.Read More →
The 1950’s house was a scientific triumph, designed in a laboratory and tested on inhabitants of all ages before being built for the masses. Never had homes been so thoroughly contemporary, with antiques and period styles entirely banished. Mid-Century Modern explores the interior decor of this seminal decade, concentrating on all aspects of a home’s decoration—walls, flooring, surfaces, lighting, and, of course, furniture.Read More →