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This is a list of notable people whose primary occupation is furniture design ... (born 1950) John Cobb (1715–1778) ... Giorgia Zanellato (fl 2000s), Italian designer;
Russell Spanner (1916–1974) was a Canadian designer who contributed to residential furniture designs in the 1950s. Lounge Chair with Arms, designed by Russell Spanner, 1950. Photo by Ernest Mayer, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Spanner's designs included dining and lounge chairs, tables, and modular storage units.
The "Retro Modern" style is associated with the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. [3] As a furniture material, polypropylene, which was manufactured in colors that could be matched to paint chips, came into its own. Foam molding, mostly used as upholstery cushions, became a basic structural unit for furniture in the early 1960s. [4]
From the mid-1950s he worked for his friend Ejvind Kold Christiansen, for whom he produced an extensive range of his furniture. His distinctive style is evident as early as 1952 in his PKO minimalist plywood series. The PK61 coffee table of '55 is a playfully irrational supporting frame visible through the glass top.
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The best midcentury modern furniture is based on designs from the1940s to 1960s, yet it feels timeless today. Shop the best mid century modern furniture now. 25 Midcentury Modern Furniture Pieces ...
Grant Stanley Featherston (17 October 1922 – 9 October 1995) was an Australian furniture designer whose chair designs in the 1950s became icons of the Atomic Age.. He was born in Geelong, Victoria. [1]
After a brief period of National Service in the British army, [2] Hicks began work drawing cereal boxes for J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency. [4] His career as designer-decorator was launched to media-acclaim in 1954 when the British magazine House & Garden featured the London house he decorated (at 22 South Eaton Place) [5] for his mother and himself.