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 […]
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 […]
Gilbert Rohde | Pioneer of Modern Design
Gilbert Rohde whose career as a furniture and industrial designer helped define American modernism is considered one of the Pioneers of Modern Design. This is a gorgeous 1930‘s American Modernist Art Deco Chair.Streamline Art Deco Clock designed for the Herman Miller Clock Company, circa 1933, was made for and exhibited at the 1933 World’s Fair. It […]
Harry Bertoia | Diamonds are Forever…
Harry Bertoia, was an Italian-born artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. The Harry Bertoia diamond chair has become one of the most pop types of seating added to living rooms around the country. Graceful long stainless steel wires gathered into a thick stainless steel 6” square base, wires delicately draping outwards forming a […]