TIMO SARPANEVA (October 31, 1926 – October 6, 2006), was a
Finnish designer and professor who was best known for his
constructivist works of glass art. Although he preferred glass
and metal, he also worked with porcelain, wood and textiles.
Sarpaneva was born in Helsinki, Finland on October 31, 1926.
He graduated from the Institute for Industrial Arts (the
forerunner of the University of Arts and Design) in Helsinki in
1948. Even though he was trained as a graphic designer, he
spent the majority of his life working as an industrial designer.
In 1950, Sarpaneva started designing glassware for Iittala and
in 1956, he designed the company's famous i-logo. He
worked for Iittala until his death on October 6, 2006, aged 79.
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ARCHIMEDE SEGUSO - 1909-99, used his exceptional
glass-blowing skills to interpret Flavio Poli's (1900 - 84)
sculptural designs for small scale glass animals and figures
and large scale glass panels.
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MART STAM - 1899 - 1986
was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and chair designer.
Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career
intersects with important moments in the history of 20th
century European architecture, including chair design at the
Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Siedlung, an important modernist
landmark factory in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst May's
Weimar Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the
idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany.
CHAIR NO S33 - 1926
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EERO SAARINEN - 1920-1961
Finnish and emigrated with his family to USA in 1923. He
studied sculpture in Paris and alter architecture at Yale. In
1937 he joined up with Charles Eames and began his designs
in a series of prize winning furniture designs for the Museum of
Modern Art.
Grasshopper Chair No. 61 - 1946-1947
Womb Chair No 70 1948
Tulip No. 150 1956
Saarinen Collection No. 71 1951
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ANTONIO SALVIATI (March 18, 1816 - January 25, 1890) was an
Italian glass manufacturer.
A native of Vicenza, Salviati was a lawyer who got interested
in glasswork after becoming involved in restorations being
done on the mosaics of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice. He
opened his first glass business in 1859 with Lorenzo Radi, and
this firm produced the mosaic glass for the altar screen for the
high altar of Westminster Abbey. In 1876, he left this business
to establish a new firm. His firm executed the mosaic
decoration of the dome of Aachen Cathedral after the
designs of the Belgian architect Jean-Baptiste de Bethune.
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Snider Clock Corporation
and then Snider Clock Manufacturing Company Limited
The first of these Toronto-based companies was set up in 1950
by Harry Snider, who operated a jewelry shop on Yonge Street
at the time. The company name was changed in 1957. Over a
period of more than twenty-five years there were hundreds of
models of clocks designed and manufactured in Toronto. Both
spring-driven and electric movements were used extensively;
the windup movements were obtained from the Ingraham
Canadian Clock Company in Toronto and most of the electric
motors were imported from the Lanshire company in Chicago.
Later, battery-operated versions were introduced.
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Mart Stam (Aug 5, 1899, Purmerend - Feb 21, 1986, Zürich) was
a Dutch architect, urban planner, and chair designer. Stam
was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects
with important moments in the history of 20th century
European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus,
the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle Factory", an important
modernist landmark building in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst
May's Weimar Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the
idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany.
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