a AAT) nM dA te Bey FURNITURE DESIGN g DESIGNER BIO Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was oy better known as Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect who began experimenting with furniture design in 1928. The collaboration with Charlotte Perriand and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret resulted in the expansion of the Le Corbusier furniture line in the1929 Salon d'Automne installation, ‘Equipment for the Home’. & DESIGNER BIO \ So Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | was a German-American re architect whose furniture x | designs pioneered new SS industrial technologies still in Use today. His furniture is known for extremely fine craftsmanship, and a mix of luxurious fabrics like leather combined with chrome frames, and distinct separation of the supporting structure and the supported surfaces. ‘NY DESIGNER BIO Charles & Ray Eames —— T l \ pioneered many furniture design technologies such as fibreglass furniture, plastic resin chairs and wire mesh chairs. Charles methods of moulding plywood would eventually lead him to design some of his most famous furniture designs as well as splints and stretchers for the U.S. Navy during World War Il DESIGNER BIO George Nelson was an / American industrial designer and one of the founders of American Modernism. While aan vorking os the Design Director at Herman Miller he was responsible for many iconic furniture designs. The clean, linear lines of his furniture designs reflect his architectural background and his insistence on what he called “honest” design. DESIGNER BIO p Isamu Noguchi was a very well known Japanese American landscape architecht and furniture designer. In 1947 Noguchi began his work with the Herman Miller company os well as the famous Knoll company to produce many famous pieces of furniture design, including his most famous, the Noguchi Coffee table. he DESIGNER BIO Harry Bertoia was an Italian born sculptor and furniture designer who worked with Ray Eames and went on to \ \ create the iconic wire furniture collection, introduced in 1952, It is widely recognized as one of the great achievements of 20th century furniture design. i : DESIGNER BIO Jean Prouvé was a French = metal worker, architect and furniture designer. In 1923 he opened his own workshop where he collarborated with other famous designers such as Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. He would later go on to design his most famous furniture pieces, the Standard Ch in 1934 ond the Antony chair pictured on the left in 1954, DESIGNER BIO Eero Sarinen was a Finnish ‘American architect and industrial designer whose work not only includes the = wide ranging “Tulip” and “Pedestal” group of furniture, but also includes the largest monument in the western hemisphere, the famous Goteway Arch in St.Louis. 7 DESIGNER BIO Ame Jacobsen is remembered primarily for his - furniture designs However, se he believed he was first and - ~ foremost an architect. A SS major source of inspiration, like many of the other designers lister here, stemmed from the bent plywood designs of Charles and Ray Eames. He was also influenced by the Italian design historian Ernesto Rogers. DESIGNER BIO Sori Yanagi, was probably the most famous Japanese industrial designer and in addition to the Ball Chair i famous for his Butterfly Stool which wos made from two identical plywood mouldings. Today, his kitchenware designs have attracted a cult following. ALL OF THESE DESIGNS AND MANY OTHER MID-CENTURYMODERN REPRODUCTIONS AVAILABLE AT: N oy ra AOTOILL YR Yate Paty Parte TSR A SUNG