January 13th, 2010 by Steve Evans
Born Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray on August 1878 in Brownswood close to Enniscorthy, west Ireland, Eileen Gray is a designer, architect and lacquer artist who pioneered the Modern design movement during the 20th century. Like her contemporaries Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, Gray’s works for architecture and furnishings were amongst the earliest [...]
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January 12th, 2010 by Steve Evans
In 1925 the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier wrote a book called L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui. In it Le Corbusier classified furniture as a “human-limb object”, wherein it was modified to the numerous functions of the human body and was subtle at doing so. Le Corbusier would later bring his thoughts to life in 1928 when he [...]
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January 6th, 2010 by Steve Evans
Even if most people recognize him today as a highest pioneer in modern architecture, the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier also made modern furniture. In 1928, Le Corbusier (whose real name is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) worked with French interior designer Charlotte Perriand, resulting with several tubular steel furniture that were afterwards showed at the historic Salon [...]
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