George Nelson1999CentreDesignersOffice furnishingsSofa1945OnwardsFirm196819771974197919951980sArchitectCentersStylishlyChairModular2023Decorative19941951DesignerCuratorArchitectural19411970sAmericanFallPiecesDecadesCollectionArchitecture and designArts and crPrestigiousCityFamilyCompanyLinePeoplePioneerProductionRoomConstructionTimesWorkStoreInstituteSystemUniqueOriginalChicagoMadePresident
George Nelson2
- In the year 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. (design-museum.de)
- George Nelson (1907 - 1986) was an American industrial designer. (encyclopedia.design)
19992
- 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)
- Strauss, Gary, "Casual Clothes by Intense Design, Jhane Barnes Wields Software to Weave Menswear Empire," in USA Today, 10 August 1999. (encyclopedia.com)
Centre2
- The chair stands out among the other furnishings in his ornamental interiors as the centre of coordinated spatial action. (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)
Designers6
- Nancy Vincent McClelland (1877-1959) was the first female president of the first US national association of interior designers, the American Institute of Interior Decorators (A.I.D), which is now called the American Society of Interior Designers (A.S.I.D.) and was one of an early group of female interior decorators practicing during the first decades of the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Office furnishings1
- In addition to his preoccupation with architecture and the domestic interior, Nelson intently pursued the topic of office furnishings. (design-museum.de)
Sofa2
- 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)
- 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)
19451
- Franco Raggi, born in 1945, has contributed greatly to the design and architecture fields for over five decades. (encyclopedia.design)
Onwards1
- He also worked with Sandro Pasqui in the design studio Pasqui e Pasini from 1974 onwards. (encyclopedia.design)
Firm2
- The firm specialized in formal period-style interiors in 18th-century French styles in addition to English Regency, English Georgian, and American Colonial. (wikipedia.org)
- The firm decorated interiors not only for private homes but also for public institutions such as McClelland's alma mater Vassar College. (wikipedia.org)
19682
- The Wilder Chaise 1968 Lounge is a masterpiece of design created by Charles and Ray Eames , featuring a nylon-coated cast aluminium frame and base with a leather-covered polyurethane foam upholstered seating section. (encyclopedia.design)
- 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)
19771
- Whereas The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York chooses the later date of 1977. (eteristv.lt)
19741
- 1974 appointed professor, chair A for Design, TU Brunswick, head of Institute A for Architectural Design. (aac-hamburg.com)
19791
- Concerns the Decorative Design Exhibits at different locations in 1979. (steinerag.com)
19951
- In his 40-year career at Century, until he retired in 1995, he designed well over 100 furniture lines. (1stdibs.com)
1980s2
- 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)
Architect3
- As an architect, designer and writer, Nelson was deeply interested in the topics of domestic living and interior furnishings. (design-museum.de)
- 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)
Centers2
- 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)
Stylishly1
- 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)
Chair1
- The 'Nuclear Groups' as well as the HARVEY PROBBER 'sling' chair (1948) were chosen for MoMA's Good Design exhibition in 1951. (modernredux.com)
Modular2
- 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)
20231
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 2023. (metmuseum.org)
Decorative3
- Continuing to go abroad for shopping trips up to three times a year, McClelland brought back decorative furnishings of all types, including an old English Tudor house. (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)
19941
- New York Reviews: Jhane Barnes," in DNR, 11 August 1994. (encyclopedia.com)
19511
- In 1951, he became a member of Knoll's design development group. (encyclopedia.design)
Designer4
- She was an expert on wallpaper and the Scottish furniture designer Duncan Phyfe of New York. (wikipedia.org)
- Being multilingual gave her the opportunity to be internationally active and to be known beyond the US as a writer, speaker, interior decorator, wallpaper designer, and collector of antique furniture. (wikipedia.org)
- Fioravanti, a celebrated automotive designer, has significantly influenced the industry with his visionary designs at Pininfarina, especially through collaborations with Ferrari. (encyclopedia.design)
- 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)
Curator1
- 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)
Architectural3
- 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)
- 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)
19411
- 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)
1970s1
- 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)
American3
- Nelson was one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. (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)
Fall1
- Groos, Michael, "Loosening Up: A New Look in Menswear for Fall," in the New York Times , 5 January 1988. (encyclopedia.com)
Pieces2
- Our assortment, like the pieces in MoMAâ s architecture and design department, is item driven. (eteristv.lt)
- 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)
Decades1
- 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)
Collection1
- 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)
Architecture and design1
- 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)
Arts and cr2
- And she may have helped to write AID's 1931 definition of an interior decorator: "A decorator is one who, by training and experience, is qualified to plan, design and execute structural interiors and their furnishings, and to supervise the various arts and crafts essential to their completion. (wikipedia.org)
- One of the largest stockists of original arts and crafts furnishings is Tony Geering who can be found at the Dome in Southwold, Suffolk. (achome.co.uk)
Prestigious1
- Probber was awarded several prestigious Roscoe design industry awards during his career. (modernredux.com)
City2
- In 1922, she left Wanamaker's and opened her own store, Nancy McClelland Inc. in New York City. (wikipedia.org)
- Following Onassis's death in 1975, she had a career as a book editor in New York City. (peoplepill.com)
Family2
- McClelland was born in a middle-class family of Methodist ministers in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1877. (wikipedia.org)
- 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)
Company2
- 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)
Line2
- 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)
- But that didn't stop the New York Central freight line. (blogspot.com)
People1
- Many people all over the world adore his beautiful, straightforward designs. (encyclopedia.design)
Pioneer1
- 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)
Production2
- In 1947, its production was moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, then the center of the furniture manufacturing industry. (modernredux.com)
- Particularly the stark simplicity of his furniture designs appealed to modern taste, which led to the production of replica Mackintosh chairs and settees. (encyclopedia.design)
Room1
- There are some photographs of Lucile's clients, and photographs of 'Rose room' interiors of Lucile. (fitnyc.edu)
Construction1
- x2122;s expertise in home remodeling and new construction help you design your home today. (issuu.com)
Times2
- 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)
- 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)
Work3
- 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)
- Probber's work would always be tempered by his concern to strike an artful balance between design and ornament. (modernredux.com)
- 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)
Store1
- A gift from MoMA Design Store is remembered always. (eteristv.lt)
Institute1
- Graduated from Fashion Institute of Technology, New York , 1975. (encyclopedia.com)
System1
- At the Olivetti information bureau, he designed things like a text-editing system, a minicomputer, and a copier. (encyclopedia.design)
Unique1
- 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)
Original1
- 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)
Chicago3
- Ltd from New York and Chicago locations. (fitnyc.edu)
- Chicago Anthaneum Good Design award, Best of NeoCon award, 2000. (encyclopedia.com)
- 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)
Made1
- Although not formally schooled in interior decoration, Nancy McClelland believed that her on-the-job training and study of architecture and antiques abroad, along with her experience, made her a professional. (wikipedia.org)
President1
- 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)