Designers of influence 2014

DESIGN INFLUENCES2014

Thomas Chippendale

William Morris

Michael Thonet

Charles Rennie McKintosh

Robert and James Adam

Florence Broadhurst

Marc Newson

Philipe Starck

Ron Arad

Ettore Sottsas

Marcel Breuer

Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier

Mies Van Der Rohe

Thomas Chippendale

Thomas Chippendale Lived 1718 to 1779, he was a London cabinet-maker and

furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In

1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet

Maker's Director. The designs are regarded as establishing the fashion for furniture

for that period and were used by many other cabinet makers.

WILLIAM MORRIS

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer

Despite his many designs for stained glass, textiles, tapestries, furniture, and books, it is for his wallpapers that Morris is best known today. Reinventing the decorative vocabulary of his time, Morris believed that "any decoration is futile … when it does not remind you of something beyond itself." He turned to nature for inspiration, seeking to "turn a room into a bower, a refuge." The English countryside, with its hedgerows and native field and garden flowers, remained his touchstone throughout the period of over thirty years

Michael Thonet

Brentwood chair

When Michael Thonet first introduced his bentwood chair (the '14' now known today as the '214' chair) in Vienna in 1859, little did he know that he had created what would become the first mass-produced chair in the world. Since then this solid bent wood chair has been in continuous production with over 50 million chairs produced to date. Developed specifically to appeal to - and be affordable by - broad levels of the population, it was to launch Thonet's international reputation in the 19th century. Today, the company is run by the fifth generation of the Thonet family.

Syrie Maugham

• Syrie Maugham (born Barnardo; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best known for popularizing rooms decorated entirely in shades of white

Billy Haines

Dorothy Draper

Florence BroadhurstQld Australia

Florence Broadhurst

(28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977) was an Australian designer and

businesswoman whose 1977 murder still remains a mystery.

Charles and Ray Eames designed furniture in the middle of the 20th century and revolutionized the manufacture of chairs after they introduced the Eames chair to the world.

The Eames Chair

The construction of the Eames chair was a quest to make a single piece shell chair that fit the natural

contours of the body and was capable of mass production. Charles, with Ero Saarinen, won the Museum of Modern Art Organic Furniture competition in

1941. In 1945, the LCW would be called by Time magazine "the chair of the century." Although originally working with Heywood-Wakefield, the chair was

subsequently distributed and manufactured by Herman Miller. Herman Miller called it "the most advanced furniture being produced in the world today."

The Eames Shell Chair was also converted into the Eames Rocker by adding two runners to the design of the molded plastic chair legs.

Marcel BreuerMarcel Lajos Breuer – Lajkó to his friends – was born on 21 May 1902 in the provincial city of Pecs, Hungary. His early study and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the twenties introduced the wunderkind to the older giants of the era of whom three – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius – were to have life-long influence upon his professional life. By the time he left Germany in 1935 to join Gropius in London, Breuer was one of the best-known designers in Europe. His reputation was based upon his invention of tubular steel furniture, one big residence, two apartment houses, some shop interiors and several competition entries.

Mies Van Der Rohe

Barcelona Pavilion

Barcelona Pavilion

Le Corbusier

Eileen Gray

Frank Lloyd Wright

Completed in 2008

Frank Lloyd Wright

Marc Newson AustraliaMarc is one of the most acclaimed and influential designer of his generation. He has worked across a wide range of disciplines, creating everything from furniture and household objects, to bicycles and cars, private and commercial aircraft, yachts, various architectural commissions, and signature sculptural pieces for clients across the globe

Orgone Lounge 1989

Lockheed Lounge 1986

Ettore Sottsas

Memphis 1980,s

Ron Arad

Bookworm shelf

Philipe Starck

Ghost chair

Current designers of influence

Kelly Wearstler

MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD

Kelly Hoppen