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Furniture
Furniture: movable articles such as chairs, tables, beds and cupboards that equip buildings for living and working. Covers function classes, materials and manufacture (NAICS 337), history, BIFMA/EN/GB testing standards, and sustainability certifications like LEVEL and EU Ecolabel.
Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce was an Italian architect and designer known for experimental plastics and irregular forms, a leading Radical Design figure whose 1969 UP armchair became iconic.
Genevieve Gorder
Genevieve Gorder (born 1974) is an American interior designer and TV host from Minneapolis, an original Trading Spaces designer, HGTV's Dear Genevieve host, Design Star judge, and Netflix Stay Here host.
George Hepplewhite
George Hepplewhite (died 1786) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose name identifies a neoclassical furniture style known for shield-backed chairs and tapered legs.
George Nelson (designer)
George Nelson (1908–1986) was an American architect and furniture designer who, as director of design at Herman Miller, created the Ball Clock, Bubble Lamps, and Marshmallow Sofa and shaped postwar American modernism.
Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti (Giovanni Ponti, 1891–1979) was an Italian architect, designer, and publisher who founded the magazine Domus and designed Milan's Pirelli Tower and the Superleggera chair.
Greene & Greene
Greene & Greene was the Pasadena architectural partnership of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, leading builders of the American Craftsman style, known for the 1908 Gamble House.
Gustav Stickley
Gustav Stickley (1858–1942) was an American furniture designer and publisher who led the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, known for his Craftsman oak furniture.
Hans Wegner
Hans Jørgensen Wegner (1914–2007) was a Danish furniture designer known as the master of the chair, who created around 500 chairs, including the Wishbone Chair and the Round Chair.
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard (1867–1942) was a French architect and designer, the leading figure of Art Nouveau in France, best known for the cast-iron entrances he designed for the Paris Métro stations.
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972) was an American industrial designer who led a major design consultancy from 1929, designed the Bell System's desk telephones, and pioneered anthropometrics, the systematic use of human body measurements in product design.
Henry van de Velde
Henry van de Velde (Henry Clemens van de Velde, 1863–1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, and designer, a founder of Belgian Art Nouveau whose Weimar school preceded the Bauhaus.
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel (Iris Barrel, 1921–2024), American interior designer and textile expert, co-founded Old World Weavers, did White House restoration work, and became a fashion icon after the Met's 2005 Rara Avis exhibition, distinct from the biometric iris-recognition subject of the same word.
Japanese garden (日本庭園)
Japanese garden (日本庭園, nihon teien): the general term for Japan's garden styles, from Asuka-era pond gardens through Heian shinden gardens, Muromachi karesansui, and Edo strolling and tea gardens, contrasting with geometric Western design.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was a French metalworker and designer from Nancy who pioneered prefabricated houses and industrial furniture, insisting he was a builder, not an architect.
Jean-Michel Frank
Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was a French interior decorator and furniture designer known for minimalist interiors of spare forms and unusual materials, an approach his contemporaries called "poor luxury."
Jed Johnson (designer)
Jed Johnson (1948-1996), American interior designer and Warhol partner, decorated Andy Warhol's East 66th Street townhouse, founded Jed Johnson Associates, designed White Birch Farm, died on TWA Flight 800.
Jeremiah Brent
Jeremiah Brent, American interior designer and TV host, founder of Jeremiah Brent Design (LA and NYC, founded 2011), husband of Nate Berkus, star of Queer Eye, Nate & Jeremiah By Design, and Say I Do.
Joanna Gaines
Joanna Gaines, née Joanna Lee Stevens (born 1978), American interior designer, author, and TV personality; co-host of HGTV's Fixer Upper and co-founder of Waco, Texas's Magnolia brand and Magnolia Network.
Josef Hoffmann
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) was an Austrian architect and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, designed the Brussels Stoclet Palace, and championed the Gesamtkunstwerk ideal.
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908) was an Austrian architect and designer, a leading Art Nouveau figure who designed the Vienna Secession building and most of the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt, including the Wedding Tower.
Kaare Klint
Kaare Klint was a Danish architect and furniture designer, a founder of modern Danish design and first docent of the Royal Danish Academy's furniture school.
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck (1911–1989) was a Finnish glass and ceramic designer known for the Kilta and Teema tableware and Kartio glassware, and long artistic director of Arabia and Nuutajärvi.
Kamisaka Sekka
Kamisaka Sekka (神坂雪佳, real name Yoshitaka, 1866–1942) was a Japanese designer and painter in Kyoto who carried the Rimpa decorative tradition into modern design and is seen as a pioneer of Japanese modern design.
Károly Kós
Károly Kós, born Károly Kosch (1883–1977), was a Hungarian architect, writer, and politician who created a national style from Transylvanian folk architecture and led Hungarian cultural life in Romania.
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Hoppen (Kelly Elaine Hoppen), British interior designer born in South Africa, known as the 'Queen of Taupe' for her neutral East-meets-West style; MBE and CBE honoree, Dragons' Den investor, author, and designer of Celebrity Edge and the 2024 M&S homeware range.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (born 1965, London) is a British interior designer, TV presenter and artist, famous as lead designer of BBC's Changing Rooms from 1996, known for flamboyant maximalist design and purple signature colour.
Lorenzo Rodríguez
Lorenzo Rodríguez, an Andalusia-born architect who died in Mexico City in 1774, designed the Sagrario Metropolitano and moved the estípite from altarpieces onto church facades in New Spain.
Louis Majorelle
Louis Majorelle (1859–1926) was a French cabinetmaker and decorative artist, a leading Art nouveau furniture designer and, with Émile Gallé, a central figure of the École de Nancy.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933) was a Scottish artist and designer, a founding member of "The Four" whose gesso panels helped define the Glasgow Style of Art Nouveau.