• In 1948, anticipating the potential for an interior design boom, a showroom was opened on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan catering exclusively to designers. (modernredux.com)
  • The 'Nuclear Groups' as well as the HARVEY PROBBER 'sling' chair (1948) were chosen for MoMA's Good Design exhibition in 1951. (modernredux.com)
  • In 1956, he founded his design company, Michael Taylor Interiors, Inc. Under Michael Taylor Designs, he manufactured his own designs and in 1985 partnered with Paul Weaver to develop and market interior and exterior furnishings to the wholesale design trade. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1956, Michael Taylor began his own interior design company. (wikipedia.org)
  • After dissolving his partnership with Frances Mihailoff, Taylor set up Michael Taylor Interiors, Inc. on Sutter Street in San Francisco in 1956. (wikipedia.org)
  • His office produced numerous furnishings and interior designs that became modern classics, including the Coconut Chair (1956), the Marshmallow Sofa (1956), the Ball Clock (1947) and the Bubble Lamps (1952 onwards). (design-museum.de)
  • Moreover, Nelson designed several private homes, including a New York town house for Sherman Fairchild (1941, together with William Hamby) and Spaeth House on Southampton beach (1956, together with Gordon Chadwick). (design-museum.de)
  • HARVEY PROBBER, INC. was established in New York City in 1945 by its namesake-who rose to become one of America's preeminent designers within the decade. (modernredux.com)
  • Franco Raggi, born in 1945, has contributed greatly to the design and architecture fields for over five decades. (encyclopedia.design)
  • She was in charge of several projects such as Lingang New City, Shanghai, and the Audi Design and Modelling Centre, Ingolstadt. (aac-hamburg.com)
  • He was inspired to try his hand at sketching ideas for furniture and sold his first design for a sofa at the age of 16 for $10 (roughly $175 in today's money). (modernredux.com)
  • As an architect, designer and writer, Nelson was deeply interested in the topics of domestic living and interior furnishings. (design-museum.de)
  • HARVEY PROBBER christened its initial incarnation the 'Sert Group' (in homage to architect and city planner Jose Luís Sert). (modernredux.com)
  • Designed by architect Charles Thompson and commissioned by Duncan McRae Sr., the house was constructed in 1912 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1982. (encyclopediaofarkansas.net)
  • For their architect, the Martins wisely chose Gordon B. Kaufmann, who designed an Italian Mediterranean-style two-story home that was elegant in every way, yet restrained in its decorative treatment. (myshopify.com)
  • Fortunately, they made no presumptuous changes to architect Kaufmann's elegantly designed residence. (myshopify.com)
  • He also worked with Sandro Pasqui in the design studio Pasqui e Pasini from 1974 onwards. (encyclopedia.design)
  • 1974 appointed professor, chair A for Design, TU Brunswick, head of Institute A for Architectural Design. (aac-hamburg.com)
  • Italian design critic Barbara Radice is renowned for shaping the narrative of the Memphis Group, a 1980s postmodern design collective. (encyclopedia.design)
  • Also in the 1970s as well as in the 1980s, Manhattan interior designer Jay Spectre introduced an Art Deco -informed spirit at Century Furniture, creating oversize, inviting lounge chairs and bentwood benches that featured plush tufted leather cushions. (1stdibs.com)
  • 1973-74 Professor - Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto. (wallacegalleries.com)
  • 1975-89 Acting Chairman - Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto. (wallacegalleries.com)
  • 1980-1985 president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), 1986 professor of Town Planning, Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen, member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung, member of the Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, 2007 principal of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). (aac-hamburg.com)
  • By the 1970s, HARVEY PROBBER, INC., had opened trade showrooms in major design centers across the country and had exchanged the residential furniture market for the larger and more lucrative contract (commercial) field. (modernredux.com)
  • Thieves centers on the New York blue-chip commercial art world, with its fussy idiosyncrasies and particular flavor of exploitation. (e-flux.com)
  • This collection is comprised of four books of Alberto & Roy (Firm)'s historical forecasts for 1986/1987 Fall/Winter, 1997 Spring/Summer, 1998 Spring/Summer and 1998/1999 Fall/Winter. (fitnyc.edu)
  • It was Probber's interest in flexibility of function that led to his most significant design breakthrough: the upholstered unit or "modular" furniture system. (modernredux.com)
  • Case goods were added to the modular mix in the 1960s-a single basic design was made available in a choice of finishes, legs, bases, heights, and hardware. (modernredux.com)
  • He created Archizoom Associati in 1968 with Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, and Paolo Deganello, which developed industrial and architectural designs and urban planning and was a notable Italian architecture practice until 1972. (encyclopedia.design)
  • Whereas The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York chooses the later date of 1977. (eteristv.lt)
  • 1 media/Trinity Michigan CIty exterior 25 Oct 2014.jpg 2019-07-17T06:26:17-07:00 Trinity Episcopal Church, Michigan City 100 image_header 2022-10-21T09:08:46-07:00 Trinity Episcopal Church, Michigan City, is officially the second oldest congregation in the Diocese of Northern Indiana. (usc.edu)
  • But while the brutalist government buildings in Washington, D.C., seemingly bask in their un-beauty, brutalist interior design and decor is much more lyrical, at times taking on a whimsical, romantic quality that its exterior counterparts lack. (1stdibs.com)
  • Century licensed collections with celebrity interior designers such as Thomas O'Brien , Charlotte Moss and Bunny Williams among others. (1stdibs.com)
  • Other exemplary brutalist designers are Silas Seandel , the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal - in particular his tables - have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere , a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels , the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures. (1stdibs.com)
  • Brutalist furniture and sculptures remain popular with interior designers and can lend unique, eccentric, human notes to an art and design collection in any home. (1stdibs.com)
  • This town would become the capital city for the Minnesota Territory, which officially became a state in 1858. (blogspot.com)
  • Nelson was one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. (design-museum.de)
  • What was, at first, a clientele of San Francisco Bay Area socialites soon expanded to Los Angeles, Miami and New York. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ski show materials document specific shows-Canada, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York-and the ski models displayed and, in some instances, orders placed. (si.edu)
  • Michael Taylor (born Earnest Charles Taylor, January 30, 1927 - June 3, 1986) was an American designer best known for creating the "California Look" of interior design. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the year 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. (design-museum.de)
  • its best-known iterations in the United States are the Whitney Museum of American Art , which was designed by Marcel Breuer , and Paul Rudolph 's Yale Art and Architecture Building . (1stdibs.com)
  • His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs , coffee table and dining table in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze series for Directional Furniture are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in American modern design . (1stdibs.com)
  • Soon, the second American shop is located in New York. (constructionwatches.com)
  • With an architectural degree from Yale, he was not only active in the fields of architecture and design, but was also a widely respected writer and publicist, lecturer, curator, and a passionate photographer. (design-museum.de)
  • Imbricated in the story of this transformation were the architectural laborers, those who worked in architectural offices in design or management, those who taught, and those who were directly involved in construction work. (we-aggregate.org)
  • The term brutalism - which derives from the French word brut , meaning "raw" - was coined by architecture critic Reyner Banham to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity. (1stdibs.com)
  • Sobota's nightstands, cabinets, side tables and more are characterized by his interest in Asian design, distinctly and brilliantly expressed in his Hollywood Regency -style Chin Hua line , which debuted during the 1970s. (1stdibs.com)
  • As design director at Herman Miller, a leading US manufacturer of modern furniture design, Nelson had a major influence on the product line and public image of the company for over two decades. (design-museum.de)
  • For over three decades, the San-Zhi Pod City in Taiwan, lay absolutely desolate and incomplete. (internationalhippie.com)
  • Over time, he became very close to Mr. Schaeffer, who referred to him as "his dear Michael," and who set him up as a partner in a fledgling design company with Frances Mihailoff, a prominent designer in San Francisco at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1985 Paul Weaver, former Director of Marketing and VP of McGuire Furniture, approached Taylor with a plan to develop and expand the nascent Michael Taylor Designs product line offered by Taylor's interiors company into a new entity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Known for its durable vintage display cabinets , nightstands and dressers made of cherry, oak, walnut and more, Century Furniture of Hickory, North Carolina, began as an upholstered goods company in 1947 but added case goods and sophisticated mahogany dining-room furnishings shortly thereafter. (1stdibs.com)
  • Myers described it this way: 'In the mid-1930s, the F (S). C. Johnson Company, a forward-thinking community-oriented company of Racine, Wisconsin where I grew up decided to commission a building the town could be proud of and asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design it. (steinerag.com)
  • Early on, Nelson was convinced that design should be an integral part of a company's philosophy, and by promoting this viewpoint, he also became a pioneer in the areas of business communication and corporate design. (design-museum.de)
  • In 1836 Michigan City was incorporated as a city, and the pioneer Episcopalians organized themselves under the name of "Church of the Advent. (usc.edu)
  • Fioravanti, a celebrated automotive designer, has significantly influenced the industry with his visionary designs at Pininfarina, especially through collaborations with Ferrari. (encyclopedia.design)
  • After hiring designer Raymond K. Sobota in 1950 and introducing the enormously popular Citation Collection in 1954, Century established its reputation as a leader in stylishly designed high-quality furniture. (1stdibs.com)
  • Sobota had furniture in his blood - after graduating from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he worked for his uncle Karl Schmidt, who was at the time a well-known furniture designer for Berkey and Gay and other makers in the Grand Rapids area, then known as America's furniture capital . (1stdibs.com)
  • Shuford found him by happenstance, journeying to Michigan's second-largest city to offer a job to another designer who turned him down but recommended Sobota instead. (1stdibs.com)
  • Member of Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, 2005 honorary doctorate (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan), 2007 honorary professor (East China Normal University College of Design, Shanghai), 2007 president of aac. (aac-hamburg.com)
  • Born in Modesto, California in 1927, Michael Taylor moved with his family to the northern California town of Santa Rosa in 1933. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scope and Content The collection consists of diaries, journals, letters, personal and home expenses, social and charitable events, clubs and other organizations, childhood memorabilia, and photographs of the Hollenback family who lived in Pennsylvania, New York and New Mexico. (unm.edu)
  • first birthday, his family moved to Cooperstown, New York , a community founded by his father on a large piece of land which he had bought for development. (cloudfront.net)
  • The Barnebys of Brockhampton claimed to be descended from a junior branch of the medieval Barnby family of Barnby Hall (Yorks ER), but the earliest certain ancestor seems to be Thomas Barneby of Ludlow, who was Treasurer to King Edward IV and was killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461. (blogspot.com)
  • And the effect of light on a room drove many of his design decisions. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are some photographs of Lucile's clients, and photographs of 'Rose room' interiors of Lucile. (fitnyc.edu)
  • Century's Citation line - a sizable collection for the brand that spanned furnishings for the bedroom, dining room and more - is revered in the world of vintage mid-century modern furniture collectors. (1stdibs.com)
  • Marco Acerbis, a stalwart in architecture and design, carved a unique career path beginning with prestigious Foster+Partners, before starting an independent, Italian practice. (encyclopedia.design)
  • Our assortment, like the pieces in MoMAâ s architecture and design department, is item driven. (eteristv.lt)
  • x2122;s expertise in home remodeling and new construction help you design your home today. (issuu.com)
  • After Taylor's death in 1986 Weaver assumed full control and over the subsequent 24 years greatly expanded the product lines, established nationwide sales showrooms and developed the Taylor brand into one of the most recognized luxury products in the home furnishing industry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Probber was awarded several prestigious Roscoe design industry awards during his career. (modernredux.com)
  • In 1947, its production was moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, then the center of the furniture manufacturing industry. (modernredux.com)
  • Their town was in a central area of New York along the headwaters of the Susquehanna River that had previously been patented to Colonel George Croghan by the Province of New York in 1769. (cloudfront.net)
  • I had left the Bay of Fundy coastal trail behind in Moncton this morning to continue our New Brunswick roadtrip, driving 90 minutes to Miramichi, a small city that's the gateway to northern New Brunswick, Canada, renowned for hunting and fishing. (goingplacesfarandnear.com)
  • Michael Taylor Designs Inc. was officially incorporated on August 5, 1985. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lately, the word "brutalist" has been adopted by the realms of furniture design and the decorative arts to refer to chairs , cabinets , tables and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and other materials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave. (1stdibs.com)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright s Decorative Designs: Harmony in the House. (steinerag.com)
  • Concerns the Decorative Design Exhibits at different locations in 1979. (steinerag.com)
  • A mere four years after entering the Rudolf Schaeffer School of Design, Michael Taylor was already a partner in an interior design business at the age of 25. (wikipedia.org)
  • He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York , which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. (cloudfront.net)
  • Paul Evans is Exhibit A for brutalist furniture design. (1stdibs.com)
  • his paper highlights the political significances of such "recreated Jerusalem" sites: in contrast to the religious and demographic diversity found in the earthly city, and in connection with European crusading and imperial ambitions. (britishartstudies.ac.uk)
  • There was a need in the city for a freight train to carry goods to and from the warehouses and factories on the West Side. (blogspot.com)
  • With few people living in the area between Niles, Michigan, South Bend, Indiana, and Michigan City, there were few resources to support a church. (usc.edu)
  • In the same month that Dyer preached, Chase visited the town and recorded in his diary that he "stopped in Michigan City, read the service, visited with a few people, drove through the sand dunes along the lake, and in the evening again read the service. (usc.edu)
  • The pieces sold very well during the 1950s, and the line is an oft-cited success story for Sobota, who would go on to win awards for his work and whose own catalogue of designs for the brand is massive. (1stdibs.com)
  • The SFMOMA Museum Store offers the finest selection of modern and contemporary art books, as well as innovative design objects and furnishings, contemporary jewelry and apparel, educational children's books and toys, posters and stationery, plus our exclusive line of SFMOMA signature products. (eteristv.lt)
  • The date was picked to commemorate the rumored crash of an UFO in Roswell, New Mexico on July 2, 1947. (blogspot.com)
  • Upstairs, the master bedroom suite occupied the sunlit southern end of the house, which had the best views toward the city. (myshopify.com)
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  • In his 40-year career at Century, until he retired in 1995, he designed well over 100 furniture lines. (1stdibs.com)
  • In addition to his preoccupation with architecture and the domestic interior, Nelson intently pursued the topic of office furnishings. (design-museum.de)
  • With his encouragement, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of New York sent the Rev. Daniel Van Mater Johnson to do missionary work, becoming the town's first settled priest on February 1, 1838. (usc.edu)
  • The stage coach ran through the town three times each week, bringing new residents. (usc.edu)
  • The 11th annual Night of Stars held by Fashion Group International honored Bernadine Morris, the chief fashion reporter for the New York Times. (carnegiehillbooks.com)
  • expand you to the New York victim of the unique Confederation of Journalists for getting this greenhouse of Support and children to the year for treating this und. (badrollerz.com)
  • In 1834, Charles Cleaver stayed in the local tavern and wrote that in Michigan City, "the buildings consisted of one small brick tavern, a frame one opposite, a blacksmith shop, and half dozen houses built in, on, above and below the sand. (usc.edu)
  • Frances Myers commission to do a folio of etchings based on the important buildings design by Frank Lloyd Wright (18 69 1959) and in homage to him was one of those special situation's. (steinerag.com)
  • Ltd from New York and Chicago locations. (fitnyc.edu)
  • There are fewer spots in the world more eerie than North Carolina's abandoned theme park, Land of Oz. Based on the 1939 movie and the original novels, the resort was designed by Jack Pentes at a cost of $5 million. (internationalhippie.com)
  • The difference between the moon is the original GLASOMT design. (constructionwatches.com)
  • To commemorate this occasion, the Vitra Design Museum which also keeps the estates of Nelson, toured the first comprehensive retrospective of his work. (design-museum.de)
  • New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022. (metmuseum.org)
  • New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957. (metmuseum.org)
  • New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955. (metmuseum.org)
  • Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. (eteristv.lt)
  • But that didn't stop the New York Central freight line. (blogspot.com)