Frank Nuovo (1961 – ) Chief Designer for Nokia
2021-05-06
Nuovo studied product and automotive design and graphics and communications design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.Read More →
Herb Lubalin (1918 – 1981) renowned graphic designer
2021-05-05
Renowned American graphic designer, Herb Lubalin, best known for his collaborations with Ralph Ginzburg on the magazines Eros, Fact and Avant Garde, is regarded as one of the seminal designers of the 20th century. The, 17 March 2018, will mark what would have been Lubalin’s 100th birthday.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 →
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 →
Paul Howard Manship (1885 – 1966) – American Sculptor
2021-04-28
Paul Howard Manship was an American Sculptor. He was influenced by Hindu and Buddhist Indian Sculpture.
He began his artistic education at the St. Paul School of Art in Minnesota, and he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before moving onto New York City’s Art Student League. Throughout his subsequent career, he created more than 700 sculptural pieces in stone and marble.Read More →
Lorinda Epply (1874 – 1951) American ceramicist
2021-04-24
She attended the Cincinnati Art Academy and Columbia University in New York, where she studied ceramics.Read More →
Don Albinson (1921- 2008) – American furniture designer
2021-04-23
The 1965 stacking Albinson chair produced by Knoll was similar to British Designer’s Robin Day trendy chair for Hille, although Albinson’s was more sophisticated. They stack, hook together side by side and comfortable to sit in. After Knoll he became a consultant designer to Westinghouse on office seating and furniture systems.Read More →
Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
2021-04-22
The definitive biography of Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts.Read More →
Michael Taylor (1927 – 1986) American Interior Designer – The “California Look”
2021-04-22
Michael Taylor (1927 – 1986) was an American interior and furniture designer. He was known for the “California Style” and made his homes showplaces of the unexpected.Read More →
Ray Komai (1918 – 2010 ) American Graphic, Industrial and Interior Designer
2021-04-21
Ray Komai was a Japanese American; he was a graphic, industrial and interior designer. He studied in Los Angeles at the Art Center College.
He settled in New York in 1944, where he worked in advertising and set up a graphic design and advertising office (with Carter Winter). J.G. Furniture created Komai’s 1949 moulded plywood chair with a split seat and bent metal legs. They produced his other designs of chairs, tables and upholstered seating as well.Read More →
A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)
2021-04-18
Now in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.Read More →
Dakota Jackson American furniture designer
2021-04-18
Dakota Jackson is an American furniture designer best known for his Dakota Jackson furniture line. He was a magician’s son, and by the time he was six, he became a professional magician. He performed in public until his early 20s.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 →
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 →
Charles Pollock (1930 – 2013) American industrial designer
2021-04-05
Charles Pollock (1930 – 2013) was an American industrial designer who created sleek furniture, most notably an office chair held together by a single aluminium band that became known as a Pollock Chair. Read More →
Vance Packard (1914 – 1996) writer and critic of consumerism
2021-04-05
Vance Packard (1914 – 1996) was an American writer who brought many of the less favourable effects of consumerism in the developed world to the public’s attention in a straightforward manner. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University in 1936, he started his career as a journalist writing for several newspapers and the Associated Press before becoming the editor of American magazine from 1942 to 1946.Read More →
Marc Harrison (1936 – 1998) American Industrial designer
2021-03-30
Marc Harrison (1936-1998) was an industrial designer from the United States. Harrison sustained a significant brain injury in a sledding accident when he was eleven years old. He had to relearn simple functions like walking and talking as a result of the crash. Harrison gained experience and motivation for his future work as an industrial designer due to this incident and his lengthy recovery.Read More →
Keith Haring (1958-1990) art that danced
2021-03-30
Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-like painting, initially on the black paper used to cover discontinued billboard advertisements in the New York subway. After after a feverish 1980’s style career of surging popular success and grudging critical attention, Haring died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 31.Read More →
Angelo Testa (1921 – 1984) American fabric designer
2021-03-30
Angelo Testa (1921 – 1984) was an American fabric designer. He studied at the Institute of Design, Chicago, to 1945. As well as being a fabric designer, he was a painter and sculptor.
He designed the 1941 Little Man abstract floral fabric, widely published and hailed as a new direction in textile design. It all began, in fact, with a doodle. A free-form sketch with a dancing shape that intrigued its artist.Read More →