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Antonio Citterio (born 1950) John Cobb (1715–1778) Kenneth Cobonpue (born 1968) Muriel Coleman (1917–2003) Mac Collins (born 1995) Joe Cesare Colombo (1930–1971) Henry Copland (1728–1754) Charles Cressent (1685–1768)
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.
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.
In the late 1950s, JRD shifted its focus away from home furnishings and towards office furniture, hospital furniture, and library furniture. [3] In 1961, Risom was one of six furniture designers featured in a profile in Playboy magazine. One of Risom's executive office chairs became famous when Lyndon B. Johnson chose to use it in the Oval ...
While working at Modernage Furniture, McCobb met B.G. Mesberg. Mesberg and McCobb would later be business partners in the Planner and Directional furniture lines. The Planner series has become an emblem of 1950s American furniture. [7] In 1955, he was married to Mary "Mollie" Frances Rogers, an interior designer. [1] Together they had two ...
As a furniture designer Mogens Koch is known for the Folding Chair (1932), the Wing Chair No. 50 and the Armchair No. 51 in mahogany and leather (1936) and the Book Case (1928). [ 3 ] Prior to teaching at the Royal Academy, Koch had the good fortune to be a student of noted architect and Professor Kaare Klint.
In 1950 he left FDB's furniture design studio to found his own design studio. His work has been featured in one-man exhibitions in Zurich, London, New York City, Stockholm, Paris and Copenhagen, and his many awards for design include the Eckersberg Medaillen (1950) and the C.F. Hansen medal (1972). He was married to Alice Mogensen (1916 - 2011 ...
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.