List of furniture designers
Overview
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- Alvar AaltoAlvar AaltoHugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...
- Eero AarnioEero AarnioEero Aarnio is a Finnish interior designer, well known for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, notably his plastic and fibreglass chairs....
- Robert AdamRobert AdamRobert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him...
- Thomas AffleckThomas AffleckThomas Affleck was a cabinetmaker and prominent Pennsylvanian resident, who specialized in the production of the Chippendale style of furniture.-Early life:Affleck was born in Aberdeen, Scotland but came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1763...
- Davis AllenDavis AllenDavis Allen was an interior designer and furniture designer. He was noted as a pioneer in the design of interior corporate environments and had a forty-year tenure at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He also designed the Andover chair. In 1985, he was inducted into the Interior Design Magazine Hall Of...
- Jean AvisseJean AvisseJean Avisse produced chairs, sofas, chaises and similar furniture in 18th century France.His chairs are elaborately decorated with natural images such as shells, flowers, and leaves. He stamped his work with the signature IAVISSE. Reproductions in his style are often called Avisse.He was not very...
- Maarten BaasMaarten BaasMaarten Baas is a Dutch designer.From 1979 Baas grew up in Burgh-Haamstede and Hemmen in the southwest and centre part of the Netherlands. Graduated from highschool he started to study at Design Academy Eindhoven in 1996. Still in school his first design, candleholder “Knuckle”, was taken in...
- Fred BaierFred BaierFred Baier is an avant garde British furniture designer maker working since the 1970s when he graduated from the Royal College of Art and taught at what is now Faculty of Arts...
- Milo BaughmanMilo BaughmanMilo Ray Baughman, Jr., was one of the leading modern furniture designers of the second-half of the 20th century. His uniquely American designs were forward-thinking and distinctive, yet unpretentious and affordable...
- Peter BehrensPeter BehrensPeter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...
- Mario BelliniMario BelliniMario Bellini is a world renowned Italian architect and designer.He graduated from the Milan Polytechnic - Faculty of Architecture in 1959 and began working as an architect himself in the early 1960s...
- Harry BertoiaHarry BertoiaHarry Bertoia , was an Italian-born artist, sculptor, and modern furniture designer....
- Edgar BlazonaEdgar BlazonaEdgar Blazona is a modernist American furniture designer. He founded the prefab backyard structure company Modular Dwellings and modern furniture brand TrueModern ....
- Mario BottaMario BottaMario Botta is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano.-Career:...
- André Charles BoulleAndré Charles BoulleAndré-Charles Boulle was the French cabinetmaker who is generally considered to be the preeminent artist in the field of marquetry, even "the most remarkable of all French cabinetmakers." His fame in marquetry led to his name being given to the fashion he perfected of inlaying brass and...
- Marcel BreuerMarcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...
- Jeremy BrounJeremy BrounJeremy Broun is a British furniture designer maker, writer, film maker and musician. Descended from Scottish gentry, one of his ancestors was the piano maker to King George 3 and another rowed the boat to Napoleon's surrender. His mother died in his childbirth and father died when he was seventeen....
- Louise Campbell
- Achille CastiglioniAchille CastiglioniAchille Castiglioni was a renowned Italian industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials...
- William ChambersWilliam Chambers (architect)Sir William Chambers was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.Returning to Europe, he studied...
- Eliphalet ChapinEliphalet ChapinEliphalet Chapin was a cabinetmaker and furniture maker in East Windsor, Connecticut in the late 18th century. His style of furniture design is regarded as one of the most elegant of its time....
- Thomas ChippendaleThomas ChippendaleThomas Chippendale was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director...
(1718 - 1779) - Thomas Chippendale, the youngerThomas Chippendale, the youngerThomas Chippendale, the younger, 1749, England - 1822 was the eldest of Thomas Chippendale's eleven children. He took over his father's business on his death in 1779...
- Antonio CitterioAntonio CitterioAntonio Citterio is an Italian furniture designer and industrial designer who lives and works in Milan.Citterio graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and since 1972 has worked for many leading manufacturers such as Ansorg, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hackman, Iittala, Hansgrohe,...
- John CobbJohn Cobb (cabinetmaker)-Biography:It is believed that John Cobb was apprenticed in 1729 to Timothy Money , a Norwich upholsterer. In 1755 he married Sukey, a daughter of the cabinetmaker Giles Grendey, and is said to have acquired a ‘singularly haughty character’, strutting ‘in full dress of the most superb and costly...
- Kenneth CobonpueKenneth CobonpueKenneth Cobonpue is an industrial designer known for his signature designs in natural fibres and materials...
- Joe Cesare ColomboJoe Cesare ColomboJoe Colombo, born Cesare Colombo was an Italian industrial designer.-Biography:Cesare "Joe" Colombo was until 1949 educated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, the academy of fine arts, in Milano as a painter and studied afterwards until 1954 Architecture at Politecnico di Milano...
- Terence ConranTerence ConranSir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...
- Henry Copland
- Le CorbusierLe CorbusierCharles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
- Charles CressentCharles CressentCharles Cressent was a French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style. As the second son of François Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also became a sculptor, he inherited the tastes and aptitudes which were...
- Sean Dare
- Robin DayRobin DaySir Robin Day, OBE was a British political broadcaster and commentator. His obituary in the Guardian stated that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation...
- Nanna DitzelNanna DitzelNanna Ditzel was a Danish furniture designer.She studied at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen graduating in 1946. Her works include cabinet-making, jewellery, tableware and textiles...
- Tom DixonTom Dixon (industrial designer)Tom Dixon, OBE is a self-taught Tunisian designer specialised in welded salvage furniture. He moved to Great Britain at the age of 4. Dixon has been head of design for the Habitat chain of furniture stores , and of the Finnish furniture manufacturer Artek...
- Joe DoucetJoe DoucetJoe Doucet is a designer, artist, architect, furniture designer and inventor who lives and works in New York City.- Early life and education :Doucet was born in Houston, Texas to an artist mother and an iron-worker father...
- Ray and Charles Eames
- Charles EastlakeCharles EastlakeCharles Locke Eastlake was a British architect and furniture designer. Trained by the architect Philip Hardwick , he popularised William Morris's notions of decorative arts in the Arts and Crafts style, becoming one of the principal exponents of the revived Early English or Modern Gothic style...
- Olav Eld%C3%B8y
- Paul Evans
- Pierre François Léonard FontainePierre François Léonard FontainePierre François Léonard Fontaine was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer.Starting from 1794 Fontaine worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days, that it is difficult to distinguish their work...
- Paul T. FranklPaul T. Frankl-Biography:Paul T. Frankl , an Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, painter and writer from Vienna, Austria, was the son of a wealthy real estate speculator. After Frankl completed his architectural studies at the Berlin Polytechnic, he traveled, spending time in Berlin and Copenhagen...
- Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames BankNorman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames BankNorman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners....
- Peter GhyczyPeter GhyczyPeter Ghyczy is a German designer of Hungarian origin, who lives in the Netherlands.-Biography:Peter Ghyczy, child of a widespread aristocratic family grew up Buda, a fine district of Budapest...
- T. H. Robsjohn-GibbingsT. H. Robsjohn-GibbingsTerence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings was a British-born architect and furniture designer.Robsjohn-Gibbings studied architecture at London University. He afterwards worked briefly as a naval architect, designing ocean liner interiors, and then as art director for a motion picture studio...
- Grinling GibbonsGrinling GibbonsGrinling Gibbons was an English sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including St Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and Hampton Court Palace. He was born and educated in Holland where his father was a merchant...
- Jean GillonJean GillonJean Gillon was a Brazilian furniture designer. Born in Iaşi, Romania, he studied fine arts in Iaşi and took an architecture degree in Bucharest in 1942...
- Ernest GimsonErnest GimsonErnest William Gimson was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers"...
- Eileen GrayEileen GrayKathleen Eileen Moray Gray was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.- Biography :...
- Walter GropiusWalter GropiusWalter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
- Hector GuimardHector GuimardHector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
- Christopher Guy HarrisonChristopher Guy HarrisonChristopher Guy Harrison is a British luxury furniture designer who is well-known for fusing classicism with modernism in his designs. He is the founder and head designer of the international furnishings brand Christopher Guy...
- Ambrose HealAmbrose HealSir Ambrose Heal was an English furniture designer, and businessman in the first half of the 20th century....
- George HepplewhiteGeorge HepplewhiteGeorge Hepplewhite was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale...
- Matthew HiltonMatthew Hilton (designer)Matthew Hilton is a British furniture designer of modern furniture.Hilton attended Portsmouth College of Art and then Kingston Polytechnic. After graduation he was an industrial designer and model maker until 1984. In 1991, he designed the "Balzac Armchair" for SCP Limited a company started by...
- Josef Hoffman
- Thomas Hope
- Luke HughesLuke Hughes (furniture designer)Luke Hughes is one of the UK’s leading furniture designers and an accomplished mountaineer. He and his practice have designed and made furniture for 50 Oxbridge colleges, 70 parish churches, 11 cathedrals, 5 Royal Palaces , 2 synagogues and 900 corporate boardrooms, including Diageo Unilever,...
- William Ince
- Arne JacobsenArne JacobsenArne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...
- Charles Hollis JonesCharles Hollis JonesCharles Hollis Jones is an American artist and furniture designer who is currently being recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for his pioneering use of acrylic and lucite....
- Finn JuhlFinn JuhlFinn Juhl was a Danish architect, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of "Danish design" in the 1940s and he was the designer who introduced Danish Modern to America.-Early life and education:Finn Juhl was born on...
- William KentWilliam KentWilliam Kent , born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.He was baptised as William Cant.-Education:...
- Poul Kjærholm
- Florence KnollFlorence KnollFlorence Knoll Bassett is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under Mies van der Rohe and Eliel Saarinen. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan as Florence Schust and is known in familiar circles simply as "Shu"...
- Silas KopfSilas KopfSilas Kopf is a furniture maker specializing in the art of marquetry. Born in 1949, Kopf graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a degree in architecture and soon began designing and making furniture...
- Shiro KuramataShiro KuramataShiro Kuramata is one of Japan's most important designers of the 20th century. Kuramata was mainly known for his use of industrial materials such as wire steel mesh and lucite to create architectural interiors and furniture...
- James KrenovJames Krenovthumb|A Krenov-style wooden smoothing plane.James Krenov was a woodworker and studio furnituremaker.- Biography :...
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- Charles-Honoré LannuierCharles-Honoré LannuierCharles-Honoré Lannuier, French-born American cabinetmaker , lived and worked in New York City. In Lannuier's time, the style of his furniture was described as "French Antique." Today his work is classified primarily as Federal furniture, Neoclassical, or American Empire.-Early life and...
- Paul LászlóPaul LászlóPaul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries...
- David LinleyDavid Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley-Ancestry:-External links:* * * *...
- Mathias Locke
- Max LonginMax LonginMax Longin is a mathematician and designer from Mannheim, Germany who designs and produces innovative furniture and interior objects since 1991.He designed the float bed in 2004 and the stream chair in 2006.-External links:*...
- Samuel LoomisSamuel LoomisSamuel Loomis was a Connecticut furniture maker and the most celebrated maker of Colchester/Norwich style furniture.-External links:* ]]* ]]...
- Ross LovegroveRoss LovegroveRoss Lovegrove is an industrial designer, perhaps best known for his work on the Sony Walkman.- Biography :He studied at Manchester Polytechnic , graduating with a First Class BA in Industrial Design in 1980 and then went to the Royal College of Art, London in 1983 where he completed his master of...
- Fred LowenFred LowenFritz "Fred" Karl Heinz Lowen is a designer, member of the Order of Australia, and an inductee in the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
- Sal MaccaroneSal MaccaroneSal Maccarone is a American author, woodworking seminar speaker, furniture maker, wood sculptor and kinetic artist. He is best known as a master craftsman, and for his internationally distributed woodworking books such as Tune Up Your Tools, ISBN 1-55870-409-4, and How to Make $40,000 a Year...
- Charles Rennie MackintoshCharles Rennie MackintoshCharles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design...
- Vico MagistrettiVico MagistrettiVico Magistretti was an Italian industrial designer, known as a furniture designer and architect.-Education:...
- Terence MainTerence MainTerence Main is an American modernist sculptor who was born in 1954. He is best known for the cast metal sculptural furniture that he has been making for more than 20 years. He challenges the boundaries between sculpture and commercial design...
(born 1954) - John MakepeaceJohn MakepeaceJohn Makepeace OBE, , is a British furniture designer and maker. He bought Parnham House, Dorset in 1976 and founded the Parnham Trust and the School for Craftsmen in Wood to provide integrated courses in design, making and management for aspiring furniture-makers, alongside but...
- Sam MaloofSam MaloofSam Maloof was a furniture designer and woodworker. He was born in Chino, California, USA, to parents who emigrated to the United States from Lebanon...
- Cecilie ManzCecilie ManzCecilie Manz is a Danish industrial designer. She is considered one of the leading Danish furniture deisgners of her generation.Her work of includes furniture, jewellery, lamps and sculptures. Her Mikado table has been included in MOMA's design collection.-Biography:Cecilie Manz was born Denmark's...
- Daniel MarotDaniel MarotDaniel Marot was a French Protestant, an architect, furniture designer and engraver at the forefront of the classicizing Late Baroque "Louis XIV" style....
- Bruno Mathson
- Alessandro MendiniAlessandro MendiniAlessandro Mendini is an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines....
- Børge Mogensen
- Carlo MollinoCarlo Mollino- Biography :Born in Turin, Piedmont, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, an engineer. As he grew up, Carlo Mollino became interested in a variety of topics that were as outrageous as his art, such as design, architecture, the occult, and race cars....
- Jasper MorrisonJasper MorrisonJasper Morrison is an English product and furniture designer.Morrison was born in London, England. He was educated at Bryanston School. He received a Bachelor of Design degree from Kingston Polytechnic Design School in 1982 and a Masters degree in Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in...
- George NakashimaGeorge NakashimaGeorge Katsutoshi NakashimaGeorge Katsutoshi NakashimaGeorge Katsutoshi Nakashima( was a Japanese-American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement...
- George NelsonGeorge Nelson (designer)George Nelson was a noted American industrial designer, and one of the founders of American Modernism. While Director of Design for the Herman Miller furniture company both Nelson, and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, Inc., designed much of the 20th century's most iconic modernist...
- Marc NewsonMarc NewsonMarc Newson was born in Sydney, Australia. Now based in London, he is a successful industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs...
- Nolen NiuNolen NiuNolen Niu is an American Industrial Designer who received his Bachelors of Science in Industrial Design from the world-renowned Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California. Nolen Niu, Inc...
- Isamu NoguchiIsamu Noguchiwas a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
- Wallace NuttingWallace NuttingWallace Nutting was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his pictures. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker —some of whose reproductions pass as antiques— antiques expert and collector...
- Jean Francis Oeben (also Jean-François Oeben)
- Verner PantonVerner PantonVerner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors...
- Sergio OrozcoSergio OrozcoSergio Orozco is an award winning designer of furniture and lighting. His works are influenced by international experience and worldwide background....
- Charlotte PerriandCharlotte PerriandCharlotte Perriand , was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society...
- Charles PercierCharles PercierCharles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days...
- Alan PetersAlan PetersAlan Peters OBE was a British furniture designer maker and one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the Sixties...
- Duncan PhyfeDuncan PhyfeDuncan Phyfe was one of nineteenth-century America’s leading furniture makers.Born Duncan Fife near Loch Fannich, Scotland, he emigrated to Albany, New York, at age 16 and served as a cabinetmaker’s apprentice...
- Jean ProuvéJean Prouvé-Images:**- External links :***...
- Ernest RaceErnest RaceErnest Race was a textile and furniture designer, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1913, and died in 1964. His best-known designs are the BA3 aluminium chair of 1945 and the Antelope, designed for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The BA3 won a Gold Medal at the 10th Milan Trienale in 1954, where the...
- Dieter RamsDieter RamsDieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.- Life and career :...
- Lilly ReichLilly ReichLilly Reich was a German modernist designer. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe for over 10 years.-Biography:Lilly Reich was born in Berlin, Germany in the year 1885...
- Jean Henri RiesenerJean Henri RiesenerJean-Henri Riesener was the French royal ébéniste, working in Paris, whose work exemplified the early neoclassical Louis XVI style"....
- Gerrit RietveldGerrit RietveldGerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.-Biography:Rietveld was born in...
- Jens RisomJens RisomJens Risom is a Danish American furniture designer. An exemplar of Mid-Century modern design, Risom was one of the first designers to introduce Scandinavian design in the United States. Note: "Jens" is pronounced "Yenns", and almost rhymes with "fence".-Biography:Jens Risom was born in...
- Alexander RouxAlexander RouxAlexander Roux was a French-trained ébéniste, or cabinetmaker, who emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He opened a shop in New York City in 1837. The business grew quickly: by the 1850s he employed 120 craftsmen in his shop and introduced then-new industrial technologies, such as...
- Eero SaarinenEero SaarinenEero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.-Biography:Eero Saarinen shared the same birthday as his father,...
- Kasper SaltoKasper SaltoKasper Salto is a Danish industrial designer, most known for his furniture designs. He is the grand son of painter, ceramist and writer Axel Salto.-Biography:...
- Sergio SavareseSergio SavareseSergio Savarese was a furniture designer and a founder of Dialogica furniture stores....
- George SeddonGeorge Seddon (cabinetmaker)George Seddon was an English cabinetmaker. At one time his furniture making business was the largest and most successful in London, employing over four hundred craftsmen. He was Master of the Joiners Company of London in 1795.-References:*...
- Maarten van SeverenMaarten van SeverenMaarten van Severen was a Belgian furniture designer.-Summary:The son of an abstract painter, Maarten Van Severen chose to study architecture at Ghent art school; he completed three years before going to work in various agencies on interior design and furniture projects, then in 1986 started to...
- Thomas ShearerThomas ShearerThomas Shearer was an 18th-century English furniture designer and cabinet-maker.Shearer was a craftsman and the author of most of the plates in The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices and Designs of Cabinet Work, issued in 1788 "for the London Society of Cabinet Makers." The majority of these...
- Thomas SheratonThomas SheratonThomas Sheraton was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.-Biography:...
- Bořek ŠípekBorek ŠípekBořek Šípek is a prominent Czech architect and designer. Born in Prague, Bořek Šípek is renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful and rich style. He experiments with unexpected and often opulent shapes....
- Ettore SottsassEttore SottsassEttore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.-Early career:...
- Mart StamMart StamMart Stam was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle...
- Philippe StarckPhilippe StarckPhilippe Patrick Starck is a French product designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style...
- Gustav StickleyGustav StickleyGustav Stickley was a manufacturer of furniture and the leading proselytizer for the American Arts and Crafts movement, an extension of the British Arts and Crafts movement.-Biography:...
- Bill StumpfBill StumpfWilliam Eugene "Bill" Stumpf was a designer for Herman Miller who helped design the Aeron and Ergon chairs.Stumpf's battle really began in the 1960s. "Everything goes back to those days at the University of Wisconsin–Madison," he said, referring to the postgraduate years he spent studying and...
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- Patricia UrquiolaPatricia UrquiolaPatricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect and designer.-Biography:Urquiola was born in Oviedo and now lives and works in Milan. She attended the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid where she graduated in 1989 having done a thesis with Achille Castiglioni...
- Ludwig Mies van der RoheLudwig Mies van der RoheLudwig Mies van der Rohe was a German architect. He is commonly referred to and addressed as Mies, his surname....
- Henry van de VeldeHenry van de VeldeHenry Clemens Van de Velde was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium...
- William VileWilliam Vile-Biography:Vile was one of the best English cabinetmakers of his time during the Georgian Age of the Designer and overshadowed by Thomas Chippendale who was clearly the most famous.Georgian Cabinet Makers – Edwards & Jourdain 1945 Vile was amongst a handful of London based cabinetmakers such as...
- Otto WagnerOtto WagnerOtto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.-Life:...
- Katie WalkerKatie WalkerKatie Walker is a British furniture designer well-known for combining simple components in her work. Her designs combine the function of the object with a sculptural interpretation of its structure...
- Marcel WandersMarcel WandersMarcel Wanders is a Dutch product and interior designer, who drew international recognition for his Knotted Chair produced by Droog in 1996.- Life :...
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