After reading this article, you will have an introduction to the world-famous furniture design works and masters.

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Jean Prouve

Jean Prouvé is a French furniture designer, and most of his works are made of metal. Prouvé's design style is unique, and the influence of industrial production is far greater than the influence of "international style". His choice of materials and production methods are derived from the aircraft manufacturing industry. The picture below shows the Antony chair.

Alva Aalto

Alfa Aalto is a famous Finnish designer and a representative of Scandinavian design. He is known for using industrial production methods to make low-cost but well-designed furniture. Particularly innovative is his use of thin and hard plywood that can be heat-bent to produce light, comfortable and compact modern furniture. The picture below shows an armchair designed by him in 1928, made of plywood and bentwood. It is light and practical, making full use of the characteristics of the materials, and is both beautiful and elegant without sacrificing its comfort. Aalto's other furniture designs also have the same characteristics.

Lounge Chair 43 Birch

Harry Bertoia

Harry Bertoia is an American architect born in Italy. He is also a jewelry, furniture designer and sculptor. In 1937, he entered the famous design school headed by Saarinen Sr. - Cranbrook Academy of Art. Bertoia studied at Cranbrook Academy for three years. Working and cooperating with outstanding designers such as Saarinen Jr. and Eames had a great influence on his design life. This diamond chair (mesh chair) is just a simple iron mesh with two metal legs welded below. It is named because of its diamond-like shape and has a strong sense of sculpture.

Gerrit Rietveld

Rietveld is a representative of the Dutch De Stijl movement. The De Stijl movement's "absolute abstract principle" believes that things should be expressed with straight lines, blocks, and colors, and art should eliminate any connection with natural objects. The red and blue chair he designed in 1918 is a representative work of the De Stijl movement. The picture below shows the red and blue chair and chandelier he designed.

Zig Zag Chair

Verner Panton

Danish designer Panton graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked in Jacobsen's design office. This chair is a classic work of his in the process of exploring new material design. The chair is made of glass fiber reinforced plastic. The shape of this chair is very sexy, with smooth lines and surfaces. The curved surfaces of the back, corners and bottom are like various parts of a woman's body.

In 1970, Nova magazine published this set of photos titled "How to Striptease in Front of Your Husband". The Panton chair was the prop in the photo, like an extension of the sexy girl's body.

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese-American, was a famous sculptor in the 20th century. He was the first pioneer to bring sculpture into landscape design. Isamu Noguchi once said, "I like to imagine the garden as a sculpture of space." He devoted his life to shaping the outdoor land with sculpture. He also has a few product design works that reveal the peaceful Japanese Zen. The picture below is the coffee table he designed (Noguchi Coffee Table)

His Akari series of lamps are 60 years old and still remain popular.

Walter Gropius

Gropius was the first director of Bauhaus, the founder of modernist architecture, and a famous German architect. This well-known design celebrity has had a wide and lasting influence on the design world. The Bauhaus school and Fagus factory he designed are the earliest modernist buildings. The picture below shows the armchair he designed for the Bauhaus director's office.

Wassily Chair

Barba Corsini

This is a lamp designed by Spanish architect Barba Corsini for Gaudi's famous building, La Pedrera, a castle-like apartment and another masterpiece in 1955. Whether it is a floor lamp or a chandelier, the core of Pedrera's design is the honeycomb lampshade with different hole sizes and a neat bracket. It is equally suitable for classical or modern interiors, but it can create different atmospheres depending on the environment where it is placed.

Eero Saarinen

The Tulip Chair designed by Saarinen is a representative work of organic modernism. This design often reflects the "organic" free form, rather than the rigid and cold geometric shape. The shape is often extracted from natural organisms, reflecting the "organic" vitality.

Womb Chair

Robin Day

Robin Day is one of the representatives of British contemporaryism and the most influential furniture designer in Britain after World War II. In 2009, one of the stamps issued by the British Royal Post Office was printed with his representative work, the Polypropylene Chair, which is still popular all over the world. The picture shows the armchair designed by Day for the Royal Festival Hall in the UK in 1951.

Plywood chair designed by Dai

There are also two famous polyprop chairs.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

The sofa was designed by the famous brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. They had two wishes for the sofa: first, a chair without any base and horizontal and vertical structure that people could sit comfortably; second, a special form and surface. The sofa was also featured in the design edition of Esquire magazine. The picture below shows the facette sofa they designed.

George Nelson

NelsonHe is a very influential architect, furniture and product designer in the United States. He served as the art director of Herman Miller Furniture Company for 20 years. It can be said that he and the Eames couple shaped the appearance of American modern furniture. His most famous Marshmallow sofa and Ball Clock are as colorful as candy and are representative works of early pop style furniture. The picture below is the Coconut Chair designed by Nelson.

Ball Clock

Marshmallow Sofa

Hans Wegner

After World War I, Danish furniture design achieved great success and enjoyed a high reputation internationally. One of the most important designers in Denmark after the war was Wagner. He was one of the most important designers in Denmark after the war. Like other Danish furniture designers, he was a skilled joiner, which was the basis of his success. Wagner's most famous design was an armchair called "The Chair" designed by him in 1949, and the "Chinese Chair" series was called the most beautiful chair in the world. It made Wagner's design go global and become a classic of Danish furniture. Wagner's designs rarely have harsh edges and corners. The corners are generally processed into smooth curves, giving people a sense of intimacy, and the same is true for the design of "Chair". The picture below shows the Shell Chair designed by him.

The chair

"Chinese Chair" Series

Joe Colombo

ColomboItalian designer. In 1971, he designed a multifunctional "night cabin" for his residence on Via Argelati in Milan. The famous "convertible bed" has a bright yellow "hatch" that can be closed to form a private cabin. His world is always full of changes. In the same year, with this prototype, Colombo continued to deepen his design ideas - combining flexible and adjustable living styles with the need for smaller spaces, and produced this furniture called "Living Bed". The picture below shows his Elda chair.

Gio Ponti

Born in Milan, Ponti is a famous Italian architect and designer. He has extensively participated in the design of architecture, interior, furniture, lighting, packaging, display and glass. His late design works include: "Ultralight Chair" designed for Cassina, coffee machine designed for Pavani, park lamp designed for Aredo Lusi and sanitary ware designed for Ideal Standard. Ponti's most important architectural work after the war is the Pirelli Tower designed together with the famous engineer Narvi. This work is recognized as a masterpiece of international standards. The picture below shows a chair designed by the famous Italian furniture company Molteni.

Mies Van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is a German modernist architect, and is known as one of the four great modern architects along with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius. Ludwig Mies adheres to the architectural design philosophy of "less is more" and advocates a new concept of flowing space in his approach. The Barcelona Chair and Weissenhof Chair he designed are classics in the history of furniture.

Carlo Mollino

Mollino is a genius and a man of diverse personality. He graduated from the School of Architecture of the University of Turin in 1931. His artistic creation is built on a solid technical foundation. With his keen vision, he interprets the creative space in a colorful way, which is not only forward-looking in modernity, but also mixed with sensitive nostalgia. He designed two classic furniture, Tavolino Arabesco and Cavour Writing Desk.

Cavour Desk

Vico Magistretti

He is one of the founders of Italian design, renowned worldwide for the modernity and quality of his products. His designs are among the most iconic products in the Italian industrial design range: chairs, lamps, tables, beds, kitchens, wardrobes and bookshelves. Almost all of his products are still in production and many have become bestsellers. The picture below shows the Piccy Campeggi lounge chair he designed.

Charlotte Perriand

Perriand was a famous and talented French female architect and designer. She was an important and active figure in the modern cultural vanguard movement that emerged in the early 20th century. She completely changed the aesthetic concept of the time and extended it to a deeper level. Charlotte designed a series of furniture that combines function and form, full of the characteristics of the mechanical aesthetic era, and can be perfectly integrated with the home environment even a hundred years later. Chaise Longue chair LC4, a leisure recliner known as a super "comfortable machine", was designed by her, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1929. It fully embodies humanity and functionality. Every angle provides the best support for the human body, and every detail can bring the joy of rest.

Table fan

Antonio Bonet

There is very little information about the designer Bonnet. All that can be verified is the BKF chair he designed during his exile in Argentina. It is shaped like a butterfly spreading its wings ready to fly, and its leather-wrapped surface and corner guards feel like an open pocket, fitting perfectly with its metal frame.

Marcel Breuer

Breuer is one of the most influential architects in the world of architecture. He came to Germany in 1920 and became a student of the first class of the Bauhaus School. Breuer used more solid wood plywood to design his initial furniture. After graduating in 1924, he taught until 1928. Marcel Breuer became the youngest of many design masters at that time. During this period, he had more opportunities to further develop and break through his previous design ideas. At the same time, he met design masters such as Gropius, Mies, and Le Corbusier. Breuer's talent in the field of furniture design was admired by all his colleagues. His Wassily Chair is the world's first steel tube leather chair, designed in memory of his teacher Wassily Kandinsky.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is the architect and designer who made the greatest contribution to modern aesthetics. From the 1920s until his death, he constantly refreshed the world with his novel architectural design ideas and a large number of actual works and design plans, and had an immeasurable impact on the form of modern material environment. His works embody the "machine aesthetics" that pursues simplicity, order and geometric forms in machine shapes. The "five characteristics of new architecture" he proposed are the basic starting point of modern architectural design. The LC2 sofa (Le Corbusier Sofa LC2), like the lounge chair designed by Le Corbusier, is a milestone work in which furniture becomes a part of modern art. It uses stainless steel as the exposed support frame, which not only does not look abrupt, but also has a unique charm.

Marco Zanuso

Zanuso is the leader of the Italian modern design school. He graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano in 1939, founded the Nusso Studio in Milan in 1945, and co-hosted the Domus magazine with Ernesto Rogers from 1946 to 1947. Like Ponti, he made outstanding contributions to promoting the formation of the Italian design school and cultivating a new generation of designers. The picture below shows the Lady Chair designed by him.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray is an Irish artist who has made outstanding contributions to modern home design. She is known as the greatest female architect of the 20th century and one of the pioneers of "modern design". Her name is often mentioned in the same breath with several modernist masters such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Breuer. The steel pipe furniture designs she created were very shocking at the time and are classics today. Gray created many classic designs. Although her works are simple and modern in design style, they are more feminine and decorative than Le Corbusier. The picture below shows the Eileen Gray Transat Chair.

Bibendum Chair by Erin Gray

Jasper Morrison

Morrison is one of the most influential industrial designers today. He is more concerned about how to influence the surrounding environment in his designs. He believes that too many designs now deviate from the objects themselves. Designers only care about the surface appeal of objects, but the true value of an object lies in its fundamental function, not in the extra design. For him, design is a tool to improve life, not just to attract people's attention. The picture below shows the Low Pad chair he designed.

Achille Castiglioni

Many people may not know Achille Castiglioni, but they certainly know his famous Arco floor lamp. He is a famous graduate of the Milan Polytechnic University and can be regarded as a major figure in the golden age of Italian design. He is an indispensable name in the history of modern Italian design. Castiglioni has been active in the design field for nearly 60 years. He initially collaborated with his brother Pier Giacomo, and only started to set up his own studio and create independently in 1968. Like Marco Zanuso and Ettore Sottsass, the representative designers of post-war Italy, Castiglioni is also a perfect combination of Italy's exquisite craftsmanship tradition and family sensibility. The picture below includes his designs Parentesi lamp, silk chandelier and Mezzadro chair.

Mzzadro Chair

Lamp brackets

Silk Series Chandelier

Fishing lamp (Arco Floor Lamp)

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