Percival Lafer | Brazilian Modernist Furniture Designer
After concluding his degree in Architecture at the Mackenzie University in São Paulo, Percival Lafer took over his father’s furniture company The Lafer Co. His motto, since day one, was innovation. Every design should reflect state-of-the-art technologies applied to innovative ideas. Contemporary designs intended for the mass market; every design should be different and original, therefore […]
Poul Henningsen | Danish lighting and furniture designer PH
Poul Henningsen (1894-1967), or better known as PH, has become synonymous with Danish lighting design. However, even though he’s well known for lighting designs, he made an early move into furniture with the Spiral chair (1932), and the results were equally innovative and chic. Poul Henningsen Artichoke Lamp designed for Louis Poulsen Lighting (1958), is […]
Kem Weber | The Mid-Century Modern Designer Who Paved the Way for IKEA
Like almost all the modernists in Los Angeles in the 1920s, Kem Weber was a transplant to the city. He was born Karl Emanuel Martin Weber (in his twenties, he began using his initials as his first name) in Berlin in 1889. After serving as an apprentice cabinetmaker in his teens, he studied architecture and […]
Gaetano Pesce | Italian Designer and architect – Italian Modern
Born in La Spezia, Italy, in 1939, Gaetano Pesce studied Architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 to 1963 and was a participant in Gruppo N, an early collective concerned with programmed art patterned after the Bauhaus. In the “Nobody’s Royal” queen armchair made by Zerodesegno. A unique piece signed and dated. The body […]
Industrial designer Called “the maker of good things” Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel (Nov 1906-Dec 2011), called a “maker of good things”, was an American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics. Her designs are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. These Red Wing Town and Country Salt and Pepper shakers show her creativity. Her elegant, eccentric designs in the 1940s and […]
Vladimir Kagan | Vessels to Hold the Human Body
Vladimir Kagan is one of our most enduring designers of modern furniture with a career that has spanned over sixty years. He started designing in 1946 and by the early fifties, his innovative sculptured designs created a new look in American furniture. This Cabinet is a spectacular early Vladimir Kagan design for Grosfeld House in […]