Designers of influence 2014
Transcript of Designers of influence 2014
DESIGN INFLUENCES2014
Thomas Chippendale
William Morris
Michael Thonet
Charles Rennie McKintosh
Robert and James Adam
Florence Broadhurst
Marc Newson
Philipe Starck
Ron Arad
Ettore Sottsas
Marcel Breuer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
Mies Van Der Rohe
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale Lived 1718 to 1779, he 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. The designs are regarded as establishing the fashion for furniture
for that period and were used by many other cabinet makers.
WILLIAM MORRIS
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer
Despite his many designs for stained glass, textiles, tapestries, furniture, and books, it is for his wallpapers that Morris is best known today. Reinventing the decorative vocabulary of his time, Morris believed that "any decoration is futile … when it does not remind you of something beyond itself." He turned to nature for inspiration, seeking to "turn a room into a bower, a refuge." The English countryside, with its hedgerows and native field and garden flowers, remained his touchstone throughout the period of over thirty years
Michael Thonet
Brentwood chair
When Michael Thonet first introduced his bentwood chair (the '14' now known today as the '214' chair) in Vienna in 1859, little did he know that he had created what would become the first mass-produced chair in the world. Since then this solid bent wood chair has been in continuous production with over 50 million chairs produced to date. Developed specifically to appeal to - and be affordable by - broad levels of the population, it was to launch Thonet's international reputation in the 19th century. Today, the company is run by the fifth generation of the Thonet family.
Syrie Maugham
• Syrie Maugham (born Barnardo; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best known for popularizing rooms decorated entirely in shades of white
Billy Haines
Dorothy Draper
Florence BroadhurstQld Australia
Florence Broadhurst
(28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977) was an Australian designer and
businesswoman whose 1977 murder still remains a mystery.
Charles and Ray Eames designed furniture in the middle of the 20th century and revolutionized the manufacture of chairs after they introduced the Eames chair to the world.
The Eames Chair
The construction of the Eames chair was a quest to make a single piece shell chair that fit the natural
contours of the body and was capable of mass production. Charles, with Ero Saarinen, won the Museum of Modern Art Organic Furniture competition in
1941. In 1945, the LCW would be called by Time magazine "the chair of the century." Although originally working with Heywood-Wakefield, the chair was
subsequently distributed and manufactured by Herman Miller. Herman Miller called it "the most advanced furniture being produced in the world today."
The Eames Shell Chair was also converted into the Eames Rocker by adding two runners to the design of the molded plastic chair legs.
Marcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer – Lajkó to his friends – was born on 21 May 1902 in the provincial city of Pecs, Hungary. His early study and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the twenties introduced the wunderkind to the older giants of the era of whom three – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius – were to have life-long influence upon his professional life. By the time he left Germany in 1935 to join Gropius in London, Breuer was one of the best-known designers in Europe. His reputation was based upon his invention of tubular steel furniture, one big residence, two apartment houses, some shop interiors and several competition entries.
Mies Van Der Rohe
Barcelona Pavilion
Barcelona Pavilion
Le Corbusier
Eileen Gray
Frank Lloyd Wright
Completed in 2008
Frank Lloyd Wright
Marc Newson AustraliaMarc is one of the most acclaimed and influential designer of his generation. He has worked across a wide range of disciplines, creating everything from furniture and household objects, to bicycles and cars, private and commercial aircraft, yachts, various architectural commissions, and signature sculptural pieces for clients across the globe
Orgone Lounge 1989
Lockheed Lounge 1986
Ettore Sottsas
Memphis 1980,s
Ron Arad
Bookworm shelf
Philipe Starck
Ghost chair
Current designers of influence
Kelly Wearstler
MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD
Kelly Hoppen