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Achille Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) was a Milanese architect and industrial designer, a central figure of postwar Italian design who created nearly 150 objects, including the Arco floor lamp.
Aino Aalto
Aino Aalto, born Aino Maria Marsio (1894–1949), was a Finnish architect and designer who worked beside her husband Alvar Aalto, co-founded Artek in 1935, and designed the Bölgeblick glassware Iittala still produces.
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) was an Italian architect and designer, a central figure of Italian Radical Design, known for the Proust armchair, the Anna G. corkscrew, and the Groninger Museum.
Anab Jain
Anab Jain is an Indian designer based in London who co-founded the futures studio Superflux in 2009 and has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2016.
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen (1902–1971) was a Danish architect and designer whose total-design practice produced the SAS Royal Hotel, St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Egg and Swan chairs.
Bauhaus metal workshop
The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.
Bentwood furniture
Bentwood furniture, German Bugholzmöbel, is furniture of solid beechwood rods bent into shape with pressurized steam, pioneered by Michael Thonet in Vienna in the 1840s.
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was an Italian artist, designer, and writer active in painting, industrial design, and children's publishing, and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian art and design.
C. F. A. Voysey
C. F. A. Voysey, born Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, was a British architect and designer who built about fifty houses and was celebrated for his wallpapers and textiles.
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames: American husband-and-wife design partnership (Eames Office) behind molded plywood furniture, the Eames Lounge Chair, Case Study House No. 8, and Powers of Ten; active 1941–1978.
Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) was a French architect and designer, born in Paris, whose tubular steel chairs of 1928 and modular wooden furniture helped define twentieth-century modern interiors.
Chippendale style
The Chippendale style is English mid-eighteenth-century furniture named for cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, defined by his 1754 book blending Gothic, Chinese, and French Rococo motifs in carved mahogany.
Christopher Ciccone
Christopher Ciccone (1960-2024), American artist, dancer, and interior designer, younger brother of Madonna; art director of Blond Ambition, tour director of The Girlie Show, author of the 2008 bestselling memoir Life with My Sister Madonna.
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was a Scottish designer and botanist, widely regarded as Britain's first independent industrial designer, who produced thousands of designs for metalwork, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and wallpapers, and embraced machine production.
Crayola
Crayola, the American art-supplies brand of Hallmark-owned Crayola LLC (founded 1885 as Binney & Smith), has made non-toxic wax crayons since 1903, when the first eight-crayon box sold for a nickel.
Danish modern
Danish modern is a furniture design movement that developed in Denmark from the 1930s through the 1970s, emphasizing functionalism, natural materials, and minimalist yet organic forms.
David Bromstad
David Bromstad, American artist and HGTV host, won Design Star season 1 in 2006, hosted Color Splash 2007-2012, and has hosted My Lottery Dream Home since 2015.
Dawn Ward (TV personality)
Dawn Ward (Dawn Louise Ward, née Burke, born 1973) is an English interior designer and reality TV personality, an original cast member of ITVBe's The Real Housewives of Cheshire (2015–2020), wife of ex-footballer Ashley Ward, based later in Dubai.
Demas Nwoko
Demas Nwoko is a Nigerian artist and self-taught architect, a founding member of the Zaria Art Society who won the Venice Architecture Biennale's Golden Lion in 2023.
Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams (born 1932, Wiesbaden) is the German industrial designer who led Braun design from 1961 to 1995, co-founded Vitsoe, created the SK 4, 606 shelving, and the Ten Principles for Good Design, "less, but better."
Duncan Phyfe
Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) was a Scottish-born American cabinetmaker whose New York City workshop produced Neoclassical furniture for the early 19th-century elite, with demand peaking from 1805 to 1820.
Eames furniture
Eames furniture is the chairs and tables designed by Charles and Ray Eames, manufactured by Herman Miller and Vitra, including the 1956 Lounge Chair and fiberglass shell chairs.
Eames Lounge Chair
Eames Lounge Chair (models 670/671), designed 1956 by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller; molded plywood shells, leather cushions, swivel base; in continuous production, licensed also by Vitra, held at MoMA.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg (born 1945) is an American artist, designer, and author, founder of ESI Design and husband of Caroline Kennedy. He pioneered interactive museum design with the 1977 Brooklyn Children's Museum and holds Columbia's first combined doctorate in physics and literature.
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was an Irish-born furniture designer, lacquer artist, and architect based in France, whose villa E-1027 and tubular-steel furniture are icons of the Modern movement.
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879–1933) was a French furniture designer and interior decorator, a leading figure in Art Deco, known for luxurious pieces in rare exotic woods and ivory inlay.
Enzo Mari
Enzo Mari (1932–2020) was an Italian industrial designer, one of the most influential of the twentieth century, known for the 16 Animali puzzle and the Timor perpetual calendar.
Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass, also known as Ettore Sottsass junior, was an Italian architect and designer famous for his Olivetti work and for founding the Memphis group in 1981.
Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel, born Eva Amalia Striker (1906–2011), was a Hungarian-born American ceramicist and industrial designer whose Museum Dinner Service earned MoMA's first one-woman exhibition, in 1946.
Finn Juhl
Finn Juhl (1912–1989) was a Danish architect and self-taught furniture designer, a central figure of Danish Modern known for the Chieftain Chair and the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber.