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 →
Gustav Stickley (1858 – 1942) American furniture designer
2021-07-14
His German name, Stoeckel, was anglicised to Stickley by his Ă©migrĂ© 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 →
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 →
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 →
Quezel an American glassware company
2021-06-17
Martin Bach and Thomas Johnson, Tiffany’s former glass mixer and foreman, started Quezel Art Glass and Decorating in Brooklyn in 1901. Many pieces of lustrous and ‘favrile’ glassware were manufactured by Bach and Johnson.Read More →
Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
2021-06-16
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York houses one of the world’s most important collections of modern art, with six curatorial departments: Architecture and Design, Drawings, Film and Media, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, and Prints and Illustrated Books. 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 →
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 →
Alexey Brodovitch (1898 – 1971) graphic designer and magazine art director
2021-06-12
Alexey Brodovitch (1898 – 1971) was an American/Russian graphic designer and magazine art director. Alexey Brodovitch was born in Russia and worked in Paris in the 1920s, creating books, posters, furniture, and advertising. He moved to America in 1930 and worked as the art director of Harper’s Bazaar magazine in New York after a brief stint of teaching and advertising.Read More →
Albert Paley (b.1944) American modernist metal sculptor
2021-06-12
Albert Paley (born 1944) is an American modernist metal sculptor. Starting as a jeweller, he has evolved into one of the world’s most renowned and famous metalsmiths. Furniture, gates, railings, and staircases are among his creations. He consults with architects and space planners, and he leads a team of craftspeople in his Rochester, New York, facilities.Read More →
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) American painter, photographer, architect, designer and sculptor
2021-06-12
Herbert Bayer was an American; painter, photographer, architect, designer, and sculptor. His unspecialised approach to art and design reflected his Bauhaus training emphasizing basic principles of visual communication. He emerged as a veritable one-person band of modernism, able to address problems of form in practically any medium. Read More →
Keith Haring (1958 – 1990) American artist and designer – art that danced
2021-06-08
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 →
Florence Koehler (1861 – 1944) American artist, craftsperson and designer
2021-06-07
Florence Koehler was an American artist, craftsperson, designer, and jeweller, professionally active in Chicago, London and Rome. She was one of the best-known jewellers of the Arts and Crafts movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Chicago, Koehler’s jewellery in a crafts style was fashionable in artistic circles. Koehler became one of the American crafts-revival leaders in jewellery, related more to French than English styles.Read More →
Charles Pfister (1938 – 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer
2021-06-07
Charles Pfister (1939 to 1990) was an American interior and furniture designer and architect. He was professionally active in San Francisco.Read More →