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Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt, born Marianne Liebe, was a German designer and metalworker who led the Bauhaus metal workshop from 1928; her tea infuser MT49 and Kandem lamps became Bauhaus classics.
Millennial grey
Millennial grey, the gray-heavy interior design style of the 2010s using cool gray walls, flooring, and furniture, which arose as a reaction against warm Tuscan beige and became a Gen Z TikTok criticism before declining for sage green and warm neutrals.
Modulor
The Modulor is Le Corbusier's anthropometric proportion system, developed 1943–1950 around a 1.83 m figure, the golden section, and red (113 cm) and blue (226 cm) series, published in Le Modulor (1950) and Modulor 2 (1955) and applied in his post-war buildings.
Mood board
Mood board: a collage of images, textures, colors, and text conveying a design concept's feeling at a glance; used early in branding, UX, interior, and fashion design; distinct from concept boards, style guides, and storyboards; term entered the OED in the 1980s.
Naoto Fukasawa
Naoto Fukasawa (深澤直人), born in 1956, is a Japanese product designer known for the MUJI wall-mounted CD player and designs based on unconscious everyday behavior.
Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus, American interior designer, author, and TV personality; founder of Nate Berkus Associates (Chicago, New York, Los Angeles); rose to fame on The Oprah Winfrey Show, hosts HGTV shows with husband Jeremiah Brent, and licenses home collections.
Negative space
Negative space, or white space, is the unoccupied area around and between the figure in a composition, equivalent to Gestalt ground. Known from Chinese ink painting to Swiss Style typography; carries shape and suppresses competing forms perceptually.
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן)
Neri Oxman (נרי אוקסמן), American-Israeli designer and former MIT professor, coined "material ecology," founded the Mediated Matter Group and OXMAN, and faced 2024 plagiarism allegations.
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958) was an American stage and industrial designer who popularized streamlining with his book Horizons and the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Paul Troost
Paul Ludwig Troost (1878–1934) was a German architect and interior designer, Hitler's favored architect of the early Nazi regime, designer of Munich's House of German Art, Führerbau, and Königsplatz buildings in stripped neoclassicism.
Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (born 1949, Paris) is a French designer and architect of hotels (Royalton, Delano), the Juicy Salif squeezer, democratic design, YOO residences, and ISS interiors.
Phyllis Gates
Phyllis Lucille Gates (1925-2006), American secretary and interior designer, was Rock Hudson's wife from 1955 to 1958 and wrote the 1987 memoir My Husband, Rock Hudson.
Pierre Chareau
Pierre Chareau was a French furniture designer, interior decorator, and architect of the Art Deco and modern movement, best known for the Maison de Verre in Paris, built 1928 to 1932.
Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was a German painter, architect, and furniture designer who led Munich Jugendstil, co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, and planned the garden city Hellerau.
Richard Sapper
Richard Sapper (1932–2015) was a German industrial designer based in Milan who created the Tizio lamp for Artemide and the original IBM ThinkPad, and served as IBM's chief design consultant.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (1728–1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer, and furniture designer who led British Neoclassicism; with his brothers he created the Adam Style, influential across Europe and North America.
Russel Wright
Russel Wright (1904–1976) was an American industrial designer from Lebanon, Ohio, whose inexpensive American Modern dinnerware, sold from 1939 to 1959, brought modern design into ordinary American homes.
Ruth De Jong
Ruth De Jong, American production designer born in San Bernardino, California; trained under Jack Fisk on There Will Be Blood; designed Manchester by the Sea, Twin Peaks (Emmy nomination), Us, Nope, and Nolan's Oppenheimer (Oscar and BAFTA nominations), and The Odyssey (2026).
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire (1757–1811) was an American architect, woodcarver, and furniture maker who worked almost entirely in Salem, Massachusetts, and shaped its Federal-style houses and carved ornament.
Shaynna Blaze
Shaynna Blaze (also Shaynna Blaze-Vaughan) is an Australian interior designer and TV personality, judge on The Block since 2012 and co-presenter of Selling Houses Australia (2008-2022), author, Celebrity Apprentice 2021 winner, and Voice of Change charity founder.
Sue Kent
Sue Kent is a British garden designer and BBC Two Gardeners' World and Garden Rescue presenter, an RHS disability ambassador who gardens with her feet due to Thalidomide, winning Hampton Court 2022 Silver Gilt for #knollingwithdaisies.
Sussanne Khan
Sussanne Khan, Indian interior and product designer, founder of The Charcoal Project (Mumbai, 2011), YOO creative director, AD100 honoree, ex-wife of Hrithik Roshan.
Tapio Wirkkala
Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985) was a Finnish designer and sculptor, best known for glassware for Iittala, including the Ultima Thule series inspired by melting Lapland ice.
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Conran (1931–2020) was a British designer and retailer who founded Habitat in 1964 and the Design Museum in London, credited with bringing modern, affordable design to Britain.
Tessa Prieto-Valdes
Tessa Prieto-Valdes (Maria Theresa Isabel Prieto Valdes), Filipino interior designer, Inquirer columnist, and TV host; founder of Tessa Group and co-founder of the Red Charity Gala, which raised over 30 million pesos.
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose London workshop furnished great Georgian houses like Harewood, and whose 1754 pattern book named an era.
Thomas Sheraton
Thomas Sheraton (1751–1806) was an English furniture designer and author whose Drawing-Book of 1791–1793 defined the neoclassical furniture style that bears his name; he was a designer rather than a working cabinetmaker.
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926–1998) was a Danish architect and designer, best known for the Panton Chair, the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic.
Victor Horta
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, one of the founders of Art Nouveau architecture; his Brussels town houses, above all the Hôtel Tassel of 1893, introduced an open plan and iron-and-glass construction.
Viktor Schreckengost
Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008) was an American industrial designer and ceramist based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for the Art Deco Jazz Bowl and for mass-produced bicycles and dinnerware.