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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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Stig Lindberg Stig Lindberg
1916-1982
Stig Lindberg, born 1916, died 1982, Swedish designers and artists
including works as artistic director at Gustavsberg 1949-1957 and 1972-
1980.
During 1950-60's Stig Lindberg was one of the most prominent designers
of the Swedish welfare state and he is perhaps best known for his
imaginatively decorated tiles and surreal influenced chamottefigurer and
tableware as Berså, Oven Wall, Terma, Adam, Eve.
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