Mission Furniture – Design Dictionary Term
2021-08-02
Mission Furniture – Design Dictionary Term. The early twentieth-century American furniture design style. American Arts and CraftsRead More →
Paul Getty Center designed by Richard Meir
2021-08-02
Paul Getty Center was designed by Richard Meir. It uses cutting-edge technology for book conservation, storage, and retrieval. READ MORERead More →
1959 Cadillac Eldorado – Temple Rather than Automobile
2021-07-27
The 1959 Cadillac is more of a temple than an automobile, a Gothic memorial to America’s glory years. It was overly long, low, and overstyled, and it’s the 50s’ final flourish. The 59’s outlandish space-age appearance, weird fins, and lavish 390 cubic inch V8 are fascinating, but the most striking aspect of the car is its blatant arrogance.Read More →
Jukebox Design by Wurlitzer iconic Americana
2021-07-22
Jukebox Designs by Wurlitzer were celebrated for the iconic designs adopting “bubble tubes”, coloured filters and plastics. READ MORERead More →
Charles Eames (1907 – 1978) American designer, filmmaker and architect
2021-07-21
Charles Eames and his Wife, Ray best known for their contributions to architecture and furniture design, industrial design. READ MORERead More →
Gustav Stickley (1858 – 1942) American furniture designer
2021-07-14
His German name, Stoeckel, was anglicised to Stickley by his émigré parents. In Pennsylvania, he worked in his uncle’s chair manufacturing with his brothers. Stickley brothers Gustav, Charles, Albert, Leopold, and John George all worked in the furniture industry.Read More →
Gorham one of the oldest Silversmiths in the United States
2021-07-06
Gorham is one of the United States oldest silver producers. In 1813, Jabez Gorham founded a jewellery-making business with four other men after a seven-year apprenticeship with Nehemiah Dodge of Providence, Rhode Island. The company was famed for their ‘Gorham chain,’ which was claimed to be of extraordinary quality. Gorham worked on his own until 1831 when he hired Henry L. Webster, a silversmith who specialised in coin-silver spoons.Read More →
LaGardo Tackett (1911 – 1992) American Ceramicist
2021-06-21
He ran a pottery studio from 1946 to 1954. He taught at Los Angeles’s California School of Design, where he and his students developed outdoor pottery planters, which resulted in establishing the Architectural Pottery in 1950.Read More →
Daniel Mack ( b.1947) American furniture designer
2021-06-21
Daniel Mack creates fine custom furniture, architectural detail, and decoration from wood as close to its natural form and texture as possible, frequently incorporating glass, metal, or stone.Read More →
John Eberson (1875 – 1954) American Designer famous for the atmospheric theatre
2021-06-21
John Eberson was an american designer who was known for his cinema décors. One of his earliest, the 1923 Majestic Theatre in Houston, Texas, was a loosely recreated garden of a late-Renaissance palazzo in Italy. Through his workshop Michelangelo Studios, he was was successful at producing elaborate plasterwork for his theatre décors in Spanish, Moorish, Dutch, Chinese and other styles.Read More →
Ray and Charles Eames a partnership
2021-06-21
They were full collaborators as husband and wife. Design is infrequently a solitary endeavour, and husband-and-wife teams are not uncommon. The collaborative nature of the Eames work, on the other hand, was easily obscured by Charles’s widespread public recognition as an individual designer and thinker.Read More →
Harvey Littleton (1922 – 2013) American glassware designer
2021-06-20
Harvey Littleton (1922 – 2013) was an American glassware designer. He was born in Corning,Read More →
Dominick Labino (1910 – 1987) American glassware designer and ceramicist
2021-06-20
He began his work as an instrument builder for the Bacharach Instrument Company in Pittsburgh. He then moved on to Owens-Illinois Glass Company, where he developed a lifetime interest in glass. He established small laboratories to create new glass batches and fabricate small glass objects while in command of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company milk-bottle plant. Read More →
Hilton McConnico (1943 – 2018) American interior and furniture designer
2021-06-18
Hilton McConnico ( 1943 – 2018) was American furniture and interior designer. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He worked professionally in Paris.Read More →
Paul McCobb (1917 – 1969) American furniture designer
2021-06-18
One of the leading designers of the American design movement from the mid-20th centuryRead More →
Sam Maloof (1916 – 2009) American furniture designer and maker
2021-06-17
Sam Maloof, whose simple, elegant wooden furniture he designed and handmade, made him a central figure in the American post-war craft movement. Read More →
Eames House Bird – Mid Century Adornment
2021-06-17
The collage-like interior of Charles and Ray Eames’ private house, the Eames House, was supplemented with countless objects and accessories brought back from their travels. Read More →
Douglas Kelley ( b.1928 ) American Industrial Designer
2021-06-16
Douglas Kelley (born 1928) is an American industrial designer best known for creating the T-chair and the Elna Lotus sewing machine.Read More →
Donald Deskey (1894 – 1989) an American industrial, furniture and interior designer
2021-06-15
Donald Deskey was an American industrial, furniture, and interior designer. He was born in Blue Earth, Minnesota. He was professionally active in New York. He may have lacked the European sophistication and architectural training of his friend Paul Frankl. However, he created a uniquely American modern style that combined streamlining with French Art Deco taste.Read More →
Brooks Stevens (1911 – 1995) American Industrial Designer
2021-06-15
Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer. He was born in Wisconsin and was active in Milwaukee. He studied at Cornell University in Utica, New York.Read More →