Eileen Gray (1879 – 1976) Irish/French Furniture Designer
2022-04-26
Eileen Gray was an French furniture designer and architect. Her work reflected a stylistic pastiche of far eastern and french influences.Read More →
Ron Arad Israeli industrial designer and artist
2022-04-25
Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer. He is professionally active in the United Kingdom. Israeli-born Arad studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Art in 1971 before moving to London in 1973 to study at the Architectural Association’s School of Architecture. From 1974 to 1979, he was one of Britain’s most globally known and individual designers.Read More →
Konstantin Grcic Unveils – CUP Chair For Plank | 🇩🇪 German Design
2022-04-18
For travellers, the benefits of plastic shell suitcases have come to be appreciated. They are extremely light and flexible, yet powerful and good looking. Suitcases made of thin vacuum-formed plastic sheets have completely transformed the product category. As a designer of the furniture, Konstantin Grcic was surprised by this ingenuity and the suitability of the modern chair covers for production and performance. Read More →
Bruno Mathsson (1907 – 1988) Swedish Designer & Architect
2022-04-18
Mathsson grew up in the town of Värnamo in Sweden’s Smland region, the son of a master cabinet maker. After a brief period of schooling, he began working in his father’s gallery.Read More →
Charles Pfister (1938 – 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer
2022-02-11
Charles Pfister (1939 to 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer and architect. He was professionally active in San Francisco.Read More →
Rodolfo Dordoni (b.1954) Italian Architect and Designer
2022-02-11
he was artistic director of Cappellini International Interiors and in charge of corporate image and communications; from 1982, he was consultant designer for several firms on pavilions, shops, and exhibition stands.Read More →
Léon Jallot (1874 – 1967) French designer and artisan.
2022-02-05
Léon Jallot (18741967), a scion of the French Art Nouveau, stood out within the movement as an ébéniste, or cabinet maker.Read More →
Henry Van de Velde (1863 – 1957) Belgian artist, architect, interior designer
2022-02-04
Henry van de Velde was a Belgian architect, industrial designer, painter and art critic. He worked in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.Read More →
Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer
2022-02-04
Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer. He was born in Palermo. He was professionally active in Milan. Read More →
Helen Abson Australian Architect and Fabric Designer
2022-02-03
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 →
Cristian Cirici (b.1941) Spanish Architect and Designer
2022-01-31
Between 1962-65, he worked in the office of architects Frederic Correa and Alfonso Mila and, in 1962, in the office of architects James Cubitt and Partners, London. In 1964 (with Pep Bonet, Lluis Clotet, and Oscar Tusquets Blanca), he founded the Studio PER. Read More →
Khodi Feiz Iranian born Industrial Designer
2022-01-20
Feiz’s work has received numerous awards and has been featured in exhibitions and publications worldwide. The overriding inspirations for Feiz’s work can be summed up by: Clarity, concept and context. Feiz has developed several project in collaboration with Artifort, including the Extens, Bras and Beso chair family.Read More →
Geoffrey Harcourt (b.1935) British Furniture Designer
2022-01-19
Between 1960-61, he worked at Latham, Tyler and Jensen, Chicago, and with Jacob Jensen in Copenhagen; in 1961, opened his studio in London, specialising in furniture design; from 1962; began designing seating for Artifort, the Netherlands, who produced more than 20 models of his furniture designsRead More →
Carlo Zen (1851 – 1918) Italian Cabinetmaker
2022-01-18
From cl1880, Zen directed the most crucial furniture workshop in Milan. He was active in the stile floreale, continued after the 1902 Turin ‘Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Decorativa Moderna’ to be known for his Art Nouveau and Symbolist motifs. He was not a designer himself but instead a factory owner and manager. From 1898, his firm was associated with Haas of Vienna, whose designers included Otto Eckmann. Read More →
Kazuhide Takahama (b.1930) – Japanese Industrial Designer
2022-01-18
At the X Milan Triennale exhibition in 1954, he met the furniture manufacturer, Dino Gavina, who subsequently invited Takahama to work for him in Italy. Takahama’s first design for Gavina was the geometrically severe Naeko sofa-bed (1957). Read More →
Antti Aarre Nurmesniemi – Finnish Interior & Industrial Designer
2022-01-18
Between 1949-50, he was a furniture designer at the Stockmann design office, Helsinki; 1951—56, he was furniture and interior designer in the Viljo Revell architecture office, HelsinkiRead More →
John Makepeace (b.1939) British Furniture Designer
2022-01-18
He started designing furniture in 1961. In 1964, he set up a workshop in Farnsborough Barn, Banbury, moving in 1976 to Parnham House in Dorset. He established the Parnham Trust and School for Craftsmen in Wood in 1977.Read More →
Zaha Hadid (1950 – 2016) architect, artist and designer
2022-01-17
She was described by The Guardian as the “Queen of the curve”,who “liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity”Read More →
Mario Botta (b.1943) Swiss Architect and Designer
2022-01-17
While the space arrangements in this structure are inconsistent, its relationship to its site, separation of living from service spaces, and deep window recesses echo his stark, robust and towering style. Read More →
Clément Mère (1861 – 1940) French painter, tabletier, designer and furniture maker
2022-01-17
Clément Mère was born in Bayonne and active in Paris. He was a French painter, table-builder, artist and furniture builder.
He studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Read More →