Ămile Bernaux ( 1883 – 1970 ) French sculptor and furniture designer
2021-05-17
Ămile Bernaux was a French sculptor and furniture designer. He was born in Paris in 1883.Read More →
Antonia Astori (1940 – ) Italian designer
2021-05-17
Antonia Astori is an Italian fashion designer who co-founded Driade with her brother Enrico and Adelaide Acerbi in 1968.Read More →
Pedro Miralles (1955 – 1993) Spanish architect and designer
2021-05-14
In Madrid, he encountered people associated with postmodern culture, including architect Rafael Moneo, his university professor, and members of the Madrid movida movement, such as film director Pedro AlmodĂłvar and fashion designer Jess del Well.Read More →
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) American textile and furniture designer
2021-05-13
Ross Franklin Littell (1924 – 2000) was an American textile and furniture designer known for his practical, innovative, and minimalist style as part of the Good Design movement of the 1950s. He was born in Los Angeles. Education He graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with a degree inRead More →
Ăcole de Nancy – Art Nouveau artisans and designers
2021-05-13
Between 1890 and 1914, the Ăcole de Nancy, or Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers based in Nancy, France. The furniture designer Louis Majorelle, the cabinet maker and glass artist Jacques GrĂŒber, the glass and furniture designer Ămile GallĂ©, and the Daum crystal factory were important contributors.Read More →
Tias Eckhoff (1926 – 2016) Norwegian designer, metalworker, glass designer, and ceramicist
2021-05-12
Tias Eckhoff (1926 – 2016) was a well-known industrial designer in Norway. His production was constrained, but many of his products have endured as timeless design classics. In addition to the design of RBM Ana, RBM Bella, and Low-back Bella, he was also responsible for the famous Maya cutlery and Glohane tableware, to name a few of the solid works that are well-established in Norwegian design history.Read More →
Friedl Dicker (1899 – 1944) Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer
2021-05-11
Friedl Dicker was an Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer, she was born in Vienna. Read More →
Paul Follot (1877 – 1941) French decorative artist and sculptor
2021-05-11
His early graphic design reflected a fascination with mediaeval and Pre-Raphaelite art. He joined Julius Meier-shop Graefe’s La Maison Moderne in Paris in 1901. He met Maurice DufrĂ©ne and designed bronzes, jewellery, and fabrics.Read More →
Grant Featherston (1922 – 1995) Australian Designer
2021-05-11
He was born in Geelong, Victoria. In 1965, he married Mary Bronwyn Currey, an English-born interior designer, and the pair worked closely as interior designers for many decades. Between 1938-39, Featherston designed decorative-glass panels for Oliver-Davey Glass, Melbourne, and 1939-40 lighting for Newton and Gray, Melbourne. Read More →
Sven Markelius (1889 – 1972) – Swedish Architect, Town Planner and Textile Designer
2021-05-10
Sven Markeilus (1889- 1972) was a Swedish Architect, Town Planner and textile designer born in Stockholm.
He taught in Stockholm and at Yale University. In the 1950s, Markelius designed simple wooden furniture and printed fabrics with Astrid Sampe, produced by Nordiska in Stockholm.Read More →
John Mascheroni (1932- ) American furniture and industrial designer
2021-05-10
John Mascheroni is an American furniture and industrial designer. He studied at the Pratt Insitute in Brooklyn New York. He opened his own design office and furniture factory in New York. Mascheroni designed furniture for manufactures in High Point, North Carolina. From 1990, his furniture designs were produced by Swaim and, from 1991, others by Jeffco.Read More →
LluĂs Clotet (1941 – ) Spanish architect and furniture designer
2021-05-09
LluĂs Clotet (1941 – ) is a Spanish architect and furniture designer.Read More →
Marcello Minale (1938 – 2000) Italian designer
2021-05-05
He worked as a designer at the Finnish advertising agency Taucker and as an art director at Mackkinointi Uiherjuuri. He was the design director at the Young and Rubicam advertising agency in London until 1964. He founded a design firm with Brian Tattersfield in 1964. Read More →
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 â 1969) German architect and designer
2021-05-04
Between 1905 and 1907, he worked as an apprentice to architect and furniture designer Bruno Paul in Berlin, where he studied wooden furniture design. He created furniture for all of his early homes, including the Werner residence.Read More →
Grethe Meyer (1918 – 2008) Danish architect, ceramicist, and designer of furniture and glassware
2021-05-04
She worked on the editorial staff of The Building Manual from 1944 to 1955. She was a crucial figure in Borge Mogensen’s research on the standardisation of consumer product sizes, and she collaborated with him frequently. They created the Boligens Byggeskabe (BB) and resund cabinet-storage systems in 1957.Read More →
Memphis Group – it has little to do with Tennessee
2021-05-03
Memphis was a movement in interior design introduced at the annual Milan Furniture Fair in 1981. It consisted of a group led by Memphis guru Ettore Sottass of avant-garde Italian designers. With outrageous interpretations of traditional furnishings and accessories, Memphis shocked the traditionally quiet industry.Read More →
Oscar Onken and the ‘The Shop of the Crafters’
2021-05-03
Oscar Onken (1858 – 1948) was an American entrepreneur. He was professionally active in Ohio. Onken was a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Impressed with the Gustav Stickley and Austrian stands at the 1904 St. Louis ‘Louisiana Purchase Exposition,’ he founded The Shop of the Crafts in Cincinnati in 1904. Read More →
Archizoom avant-garde Italian design studio
2021-05-02
Four architectsâAndrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozziâand two designersâDario Bartolini and Lucia Bartoliniâfounded Archizoom this Italian avant-garde design studio in 1966 in Florence, Italy. They focused on exhibition installations and architecture and designing interiors and goods as part of the Italian Anti-Design or Radical Design movement.Read More →
AndrĂ© Mare (1885 – 1932) french painter, decorator and furniture designer
2021-05-01
Mare AndrĂ© was a french painter, decorator and furniture designer. He studied painting, at the Academie Julian, Paris. Read More →
Charles Pfister (1938 – 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer
2021-04-28
Charles Pfister (1939 to 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer and architect. He was professionally active in San Francisco.Read More →