HANS WEGNER 1914 -2007
Hans Wegner is one of the architects and designers who
made Danish design world famous.
His own chair designs were manufactured primarily by PP
Møbler and Carl Hansen & Son
Peacock Chair (1947)
Wishbone Chair (1949)
Flag Halyard Chair (1950)
The Chair (1949)
Valet Chair (1953)
Hoop Chair (1985)
Papa Bears Chair (1951)
Chinese Chair, different variations (1944-1945)
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - 1867 – 1959
was one of the most prominent and influential architects of
the first half of the 20th century. To this day he is frequently
recognized as America's most famous architect and still
extremely well-known in the public eye.
Chair for the Isabel Roberts House, 1908
Chair for the Francis W. Little House, 1902
Swivel armchair for Larkin Co. 1904
Peacock chair for the Imperial Hotel, Toky 1922
Chair for the Johnson Wax Administration Building 1936
Chairs for the donald Lovness House 1956
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TAPIO WIRKKALA - 1915-1985
was one of the pioneers of Finnish industrial art who gained
international recognition in the years following the Second
World War.Tapio Wirkkala (2 June 1915 – 19 May 1985) was
a Finnish designer and sculptor, a major figure of post-war
design. He designed the Finnish markka banknotes
introduced in 1955. His range was immense, designing
glassware, stoneware, and jewelry for mass production, as
well as individual sculptures in several media.
Among his most famous works have been the design for the
Finlandia vodka bottle (1970-2000) and for Iittala's Ultima
Thule set of kitchen glasses. Both glassware items feature a
dripping icicle look, and in the case of Iittala's popular
glassware set it took thousands of hours to develop a
glassblowing technique that would produce the effect.
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RUSSELLL WRIGHT - 1905–1976,
American industrial designer, b. Lebanon, Ohio. Wright was
notable for introducing modern functional forms, simplified
shapes, and cheerful colors in furniture, appliances,
ceramics, fabrics, and many other products used in daily
life. He was largely responsible for the popularity of furniture
of modern industrial design made with light-colored wood,
and for the use of spun aluminum as a decorative material.
His simple, sturdy forms in china, glass, and flatware were
widely used and imitated
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Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an
Austrian architect.
Wagner was born in Penzing, a suburb of Vienna. He studied
in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864, he started designing his first
buildings in the historicist style. In the mid- and late-1880s,
like many of his contemporaries in Germany (such as
Constantin Lipsius, Richard Streiter and Georg Heuser),
Switzerland (Hans Auer and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli) and
France (Paul Sédille), Wagner became a proponent of
Architectural Realism. It was a theoretical position that
enabled him to mitigate the reliance on historical forms. In
1894, when he became Professor of Architecture at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, he was well advanced on his
path toward a more radical opposition to the prevailing
currents of historicist architecture.
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Edward Wormley was born in 1907 in Rochelle, Illinois, and
died in 1995. In 1926 he went to study briefly at the Art
Institute of Chicago. Funds ran out and he went to work as
an interior designer for Marshall Fields & Company
department store. During the Depression, Wormley was
introduced to the president of Dunbar Furniture Company of
Berne, Indiana, who hired him to upgrade their product line.
[edit] Working with Dunbar
Dunbar made a good choice, as Wormley's work met with
immediate success. In 1944 the company decided to focus
strictly on Modern lines, and Edward Wormley rose to the
task, incorporating European and Scandinavian innovations.
His eye for quality and the exacting craftsmanship at
Dunbar made for furniture that was elegant, understood and
exceptionally well-made. Wormley was never really at the
forefront of Modern design. Instead, he took the best
elements from classical, historical design and translated
them into Modern vernacular. The result was furniture that
was sophisticated, yet mainstream and very successful.
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