Max Ernst Haefeli (1901-1976) – Swiss architect and designer
2021-04-15
Max Ernst Haefeli (1901-1976) was a Swiss architect and designer born in Zurich. He worked in the Otto Bartning studio in Berlin between 1923-24.Read More →
Hannah Ryggen (1894 – 1970) Swedish textile designer
2021-04-15
Hannah Ryggen (1894 – 1970) was a textile designer and teacher from Sweden. She was born in Malmö and worked professionally in Norway.Read More →
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) British social critic and writer.
2021-04-15
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) was a British social critic and writer. His influential books The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851—53) show his interest in architecture, particularly the Gothic style. Read More →
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879 – 1933) French designer and decorator
2021-04-15
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (1879 – 1933) was a French designer who was born and lived in Paris. n 1907, he took over his father’s house painting company in Paris. He first exhibited his work in 1911, with architect Charles Plumet and couturier Jacques Doucet, Frantz Jourdain, and Tony Selmersheim.Read More →
Ernst Riegel (1871 – 1939) a German metalsmith
2021-04-14
Ernst Riegel 1871 – 1939) was a metalsmith from Germany. He was active in Munich, Darmstadt, and Cologne after being born in Münnerstadt.Read More →
Jacob Prytz (1886 – 1962) Norwegian metalworker and designer
2021-04-13
Jacob Prytz (1886 – 1962) was a metalworker and designer from Norway. He was born and raised in Oslo, where he also worked.Read More →
Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood
2021-04-13
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of British artists. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones led the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood from 1848. Read More →
Paul Tuttle (1918 – 2002) American furniture and interior designer
2021-04-08
Paul Tuttle (1918 – 2002) was an American designer best known for his furniture designs and his work in interior design and architecture. Tuttle had no formal design education and instead drew inspiration from his own life and the mentorship of well-known artists like Alvin Lustig, Welton Becket, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Tuttle worked as a furniture designer for over 50 years, producing a body of work that included mass-produced and custom-made pieces.Read More →
Oscar Tusquets Blanca – Spanish painter, architect and designer
2021-04-08
Oscar Tusquets Blanca is a Spanish painter, architect and designer. He was born and is professionally active in Barcelona, Spain.Read More →
Gillo Dorfles (1910 – 2018) Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher
2021-04-07
Gillo Dorfles (1910 – 2018) was an Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher. He was born in Trieste and active in Milan.Read More →
Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) – French ceramicist.
2021-04-07
Taxile Maxmilien Doat (1851 – 1938) was a French ceramicist. He was born in Albi, and he was active in University City, Missouri.Read More →
Sergei Vasilevich Chekhonin (1878 – 1936) Russian graphic artist and ceramicist
2021-04-07
Sergei Vasil’evich Chekhonin (1878 – 1936) was a Russian graphic artist and ceramicist. He was professionally active in St. Petersburg and Paris.Read More →
Serge Ivan Chermayeff (1900 – 1996) – Russian architect and designer
2021-04-07
Serge Ivan Chermayeff was a Russian architect and designer. He was born in Grosny now Azerbaijan and professionally active in Britain and the United States.Read More →
B.d Ediciones de Diseño – Spanish furniture and design manufacture.
2021-04-07
Oscar Tusquets, Lluis Clotet, Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, and Xavier Carulla, among others, founded B.d Ediciones de Disefio in 1972. Many of Tusquets’ furniture and product designs, as well as those of others at the time, were deemed too risky by other Spanish manufacturers.Read More →
Louis Majorelle (1859 – 1926) French Designer and cabinetmaker
2021-04-07
Majorelle took over the family cabinetmaking and ceramics business in Nancy in 1879. In the late 1880s, he began designing Modern furniture. Working in the Art Nouveau style, Majorelle was the most dynamic practitioner of the School of Nancy. By mechanising his factory, he produced significant quantities of highly decorated commercial furniture and more elaborate pieces using expensive materials such as mahogany, burr walnut, and ormolu. Read More →
Maharaja of Indore (1908 – 1961) – Indian design & art patron
2021-04-06
Maharaja of Indore (Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir Yeshwant Rao II Holkar XIV Bahadur) (1908 – 1961) was an Indian patron and ruler of Indore (now Madhya Pradesh).Read More →
George Washington Maher (1864 – 1926) American furniture designer and architect
2021-04-06
George Washington Maher (1864 – 1926) was a furniture designer and architect from the United States.
He worked as an apprentice in Joseph Lyman Silsbee’s architecture office alongside Frank Lloyd Wright and George Grant Elmslie.Read More →
Hendrik van Keppel (1914-1987) American interior designer
2021-04-06
Hendrik Van Keppel was an American interior designer who lived from 1914 to 1987. He was professionally active in Los Angeles.Read More →
Christine Van der Hurd – British textile designer
2021-04-06
Christine Van der Hurd is a British textile designer and is professionally active in New York and London. She studied at the Winchester School of Art, Hampshire, until 1973Read More →
Flavio Poli (1900 – 1984) Italian designer of glassware
2021-04-06
Flavio Poli (1900 – 1984) was an Italian designer of glassware. He was born in Chioggia and worked in Venice professionally. He was born in 1900 and studied art at the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia before working as a ceramicist.Read More →