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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.
Fabergé egg
The Fabergé egg, or Imperial Easter Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Peter Carl Fabergé's Saint Petersburg firm for the Russian tsars from 1885.
Fai Khadra
Fai Khadra (born 1991), also known as @yourboyfai, is a Palestinian-American model, creative director, set designer, and musician; brother of DJ twins Simi and Haze, known for Balenciaga S/S 24, Oliver Peoples eyewear, and Fendi Couture SS21 set design.
Famille rose
Famille rose, or fencai (粉彩), meaning "soft color," is a type of Chinese overglaze-enamelled porcelain developed at Jingdezhen in the late Kangxi period and peaked under the Yongzheng emperor.
Famille verte
Famille verte, French for "green family," is Chinese porcelain decorated with overglaze enamels dominated by bright translucent green, made at Jingdezhen during the Kangxi period from about 1685 to 1725.
Fashion capital
Fashion capital: a city central to the fashion industry. The Big Four are New York, London, Milan, Paris; Paris leads via haute couture since Worth (1858); emerging capitals include Tokyo, Seoul, Copenhagen, Lagos.
Fashion design
Fashion design, also called fashion designing or apparel design, is the branch of industrial design that turns ideas for clothing and accessories into producible, wearable, marketable garments.
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.
Fire-gilding
Fire-gilding, also called mercury or amalgam gilding, applies a gold-mercury paste to metal and heats it so the mercury evaporates, leaving a bonded gold layer.
First Hen Egg
The First Hen Egg, also called the Hen Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg in 1885 as the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs.
Floristry
Floristry: the cultivation, trade, and arrangement of cut flowers by floral designers (florists). Covers duties, Dutch trade origins, Constance Spry, U.S. employment of 45,200 with $37,360 median wage, and sustainability and pesticide concerns.
Francisca Cerqueira Gomes
Francisca (Kika) Cerqueira Gomes, born 2003 in Porto, is a Portuguese model and influencer, daughter of presenter Maria Cerqueira Gomes; first Portuguese to walk Le Défilé L'Oréal Paris in 2025.
Frankenthal porcelain
Frankenthal porcelain is hard-paste porcelain made in Frankenthal, Palatinate, from 1755 to 1800, founded by Paul Anton Hannong and later a state manufactory under Elector Carl Theodor.
Freer Canteen
The Freer Canteen is a mid-13th-century Ayyubid brass canteen with silver inlay, made in Syria or northern Iraq and held at the Freer Gallery in Washington.
French fashion
French fashion: the Paris-centered clothing and couture system, from Worth's 1858 haute couture house and the legally protected 1945 label to today's Paris Fashion Week and a market where secondhand and ultra fast fashion take 25% of volume.
Fujiwara Kei
Fujiwara Kei (藤原啓), real name Keiji, was a Japanese ceramicist of Bizen ware who became a Living National Treasure in 1970, known for the plain style called Kei Bizen.
Fukumi Shimura
Fukumi Shimura (志村ふくみ, born 1924) is a Japanese dyeing-and-weaving artist who weaves kimonos from plant-dyed tsumugi silk, certified a Living National Treasure in 1990 and known for her Tale of Genji series.
Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is a late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch in the British Museum, the earliest English depiction of the Five Senses.
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.
Gallé glass
Gallé glass is the Art Nouveau art glass of French designer Émile Gallé (1846–1904) of Nancy, made in layered cameo-cut glass decorated with botanical and insect subjects.
Garden carpet
A garden carpet is a Persian carpet showing a formal walled garden in bird's-eye view, with canals, pools, trees, and a pavilion, its classic form set under the Safavid dynasty.
Ge ware
Ge ware (哥窑) is a rare Chinese crackle-glazed celadon counted among the Five Great Kilns of the Song dynasty, known for its "golden threads and iron wires" crackle.
Gemma Augustea
The Gemma Augustea is a large Roman cameo cut from two-layered sardonyx, made around 9–12 AD, glorifying Emperor Augustus and Tiberius, and held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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.
Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen, born Georg Arthur Jensen (1866–1935), was a Danish silversmith and sculptor who founded his Copenhagen silversmithy in 1904, a defining name in Scandinavian silver.
Georg Jensen silver
Georg Jensen silver is the silverware, hollowware, and jewelry of the Danish silversmithy founded by sculptor Georg Jensen in Copenhagen in 1904, a defining body of Scandinavian design.
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.