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Carlo Scarpa – Biography
Carlo Scarpa Venice (1906 – Sendai 1978) Carlo Scarpa grew up in Venice in the company of the artists and intellectuals he encountered at the Bi...Read More
Franco Albini – Biography
Franco Albini (17 October 1905 – 1 November 1977) Albini read architecture at the Milan Polytechnic where he obtained his degree in 1929. After workin...Read More
Mid Century North American Furniture Designers
A Snapshot of Mid Century North American Furniture Designers
Superleggera, 699, Gio Ponti
The Superleggera is a super-stable chair, designed to be lifted up with just one finger.
Arne Jacobsen Grand Prix chair
What is it that makes the Grand Prix a favourite with collectors?
What is the Compasso d’Oro award?
The Compasso d'Oro prize was instituted by the Rinascente company in 1954 and was initially an idea of Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli.
The use of composite materials and plywood in furniture design
In the mid-fifties, the making of furniture began to take industrial form and so it became to look into the use oc composite materials in furniture de...Read More
A guide to the use of glass in architecture and design
The idea of using traditional materials with design as the intrinsic component in architecture has found a number of supporters in Italy.
Thoughts on architecture and design
If the Morrisian idea of architecture as "everything that configures living space, apart from absolute desert" were still in vogue, it would be consid...Read More
Italian design and it’s cinematic influence
We can all conjure up the memory of the red Alfa Romeo Duetto, the "cuttlefish", driven by a very young Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"
Alvar Aalto – Biography
Alvar Aalto was an architect who after a short classicist period turned to functionalism.
Your 8 Home Office Must Haves
If you are serious about working from home, you will only get so far by setting up camp on your kitchen table. We tell you the eight must haves you ne...Read More
Charles & Ray Eames furniture designs for Herman Miller
Listed below you will find what we feel are their key collaborations with Herman Miller Inc over the decades.
Cherner Armchair by Norman Cherner and Plycraft
Anyone who owns a Cherner armchair knows the heart-opening feeling it gives you when you walk into a room. Hands down it is the sexiest plywood chair ...Read More
Alvar Aalto Furniture Designs for Herman Miller
These listings are the original product features and design stories for the Herman Miller designs by Alvar Aalto.
The original Herman Miller Aeron Chair design story
Herman Miller Aeron Chair designed by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick
The Cone Chair and Heart Cone chair by Verner Panton
When the Cone Chair was first exhibited in the window of a furniture shop in New York, traffic police were called in.
Spanish Chair 2226 by Børge Mogensen
Mogensen's name rarely crops up outside the world of collectors, designers and dealers and yet he is one of mid-century modern's most important propon...Read More