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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.
Daria-i-Noor
The Daria-i-Noor (دریای نور, "sea of light") is a pale pink diamond of about 182 carats, among the Iranian crown jewels exhibited in Tehran.
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.
David Drake
David Drake, known in his lifetime as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved African American potter and poet in Edgefield, South Carolina, active from about 1801 to the 1870s.
David Vases
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white porcelain altar vases dated by inscription to 1351, held in the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection.
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.
Deccan carpets
Deccan carpets are knotted-pile carpets produced in the Deccan plateau of south-central India, chiefly under the Deccan sultanates from roughly the sixteenth century onward, serving local courts and export markets.
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.
Derek Blasberg
Derek Blasberg (born 1982, St. Louis) is an American fashion writer, NYU graduate, first Head of Fashion & Beauty at YouTube (2018–2022), Vanity Fair special correspondent, Gagosian executive editor, and author of Classy and Fast + Louche.
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."
Ding ware
Ding ware (Ding yao) is Chinese white porcelain made at Quyang, Hebei, from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty, and one of the Song dynasty's Five Great Kilns.
Ding Ware Boy Pillow
The Ding ware boy pillow is a white porcelain headrest shaped as a recumbent boy, made at the Ding kilns of China's Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).
Dior Saddle bag
The Dior Saddle bag is a curved, saddle-shaped flap bag designed by John Galliano in 1999 for Dior's spring/summer 2000 collection, halted in 2007, and revived by Maria Grazia Chiuri in 2018; distinct from the Lady Dior by its equestrian asymmetry, D stirrup clasp, and Oblique canvas.
Dominick Labino
Dominick Labino (1910–1987) was an American glass research scientist and artist who, with Harvey Littleton, helped launch the American studio glass movement at the 1962 Toledo workshops.
Doucai
Doucai is a Chinese porcelain decoration technique combining underglaze cobalt blue outlines with overglaze enamels, fired twice; created at Jingdezhen in the Xuande reign and reaching its peak under the Chenghua emperor.
Dresden Green Diamond
The Dresden Green Diamond is a 41-carat natural green diamond, the largest known, with color evenly distributed through the stone, set in a hat ornament in Dresden's Green Vault since the 18th century.
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.
Dushan Great Jade Sea
The Dushan Great Jade Sea (渎山大玉海), also called the Jade Urn, is a giant jade wine vessel made for Kublai Khan and completed in 1265, the largest surviving ancient jade object in China.
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.
Earring
An earring is a piece of jewelry worn through a pierced opening in the ear or attached with a clip, worn on the earlobe or cartilage.
Edgar Brandt
Edgar Brandt (1880–1960) was a French wrought-iron craftsman and designer, a defining figure of Art Deco ironwork, known for the Louvre's Escalier Mollien railing and the Arc de Triomphe's Eternal Flame vessel.
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.
Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti (1940-2021), Italian jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co. from 1974; creator of the Bone cuff, Bean, Open Heart, and Diamonds by the Yard; founder of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, her universal heir.
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (1846–1904) was a French glassmaker, ceramist, and furniture designer based in Nancy, a leading initiator of Art Nouveau who founded the École de Nancy.
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.
Emperor's Carpet
The Emperor's Carpet is a large Safavid Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1943.
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.
Esquiline Treasure
The Esquiline Treasure is a collection of Late Roman silver discovered in 1793 at the foot of the Esquiline Hill in Rome and held by the British Museum.