Each week there’s a new comprehensive biographical post featuring a single designer from the mid-century modernist period. Stay tuned!
Last week we featured Arne Jacobsen. Furniture was an essential part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy and upbringing as a designer, even though most people know him as the creator of organic architecture. His most famous work, the Fallingwater house, sits atop a small waterfall in Pennsylvania, deep into the Laurel Highlands. Frank Lincoln Wright …
Last week we featured Achille Castiglioni, creator of the Arco Lamp! Copenhagen, 1902. Danish merchant Johan Jacobsen and his wife Pouline, a bank clerk, have just given birth to a son that they named Arne. The child’s restlessness and artistic prowess both flourish at the same time on his early school years, setting the stage …
Last week we featured Finn Juhl. In a couple of weeks, art and design enthusiasts around the world will commemorate the passing of Achille Castiglioni, one of the foremost Italian designers of the mid-century modernist period, and co-creator of the inimitable, unparalleled Arco lamp. Born in Milan in 1918, Achille showed an early passion for …
Last week we profiled Hans Wegner! New designers every Tuesday! Born in 1912, Finn Juhl is one of the lesser known figures of the mid-century modernist movement, though for real fans, he’s actually the very first. Primarily an architect and interior designer, Juhl not only contributed to the Danish modern design trend, he actually introduced …
Last week we featured Marcel Breuer. Creator of the iconic, and weird, Flag Halyard chair, the Peacock chair, and a 1949 design that’s just called “The Chair”, we present to you Hans Jorgensen Wegner: Danish furniture designer, pioneer, iconoclast, and artist. Born in Tønder, south Denmark, in 1914, Wegner was the son of a cobbler, …
Last week we had Peter Behrens! These months have certainly been interesting for Bauhaus fans! Our Designer of the Week article comes out every Tuesday! Hungarian-American designer Marcel Breuer was the first craftsman to ever work with tubular steel in conjunction with textiles. He gave the world a chair concept that could not be remade, …
Last week we did an article on Sir Robin Day, OBE. German designer and architect Peter Behrens was an influence to many in the modernist movement, including Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and a large group of the school’s most notable alumni. He was born in 1868 in Hamburg, North German Confederation. Like Gropius, he was …
Last week we profiled the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius. We write about a new designer from mid-century modern lore every Tuesday! Mr. Robin Day, OBE, and a Fellow of the British Royal Chartered Society of Designers, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England in 1915. Along with his wife, Lucienne Day (a renowned …
Last week we featured Florence Knoll. We have new designer profiles every Tuesday. It seems that finally our Designer of the Week series has led us to the source, the one person that started it all (at least at the Bauhaus). Walter Gropius is, to many people, the patriarch of European modernist design, and there …
Last week we profiled Le Corbusier. Knoll is a big name in furniture, and we don’t necessarily mean Florence. The name itself represents the big conglomerate that she helped found, but that sometimes contributed to her overshadowing. Florence Schust, however, was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1917. She married and took the last name of …
