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Federico Munari

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Federico Munari" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Federico Munari (1907 — 1998) Federico Munari is a prominent Italian designer who began his career in the early 1950s. He developed a distinctive style that combines design and artistic creativity, setting him...

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Walter & Moretti

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Walter & Moretti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Walter & Moretti In 1936, Luigi Moretti, the Italian architect, gained recognition at the young age of 29 for his design of the fencing hall at the Foro Italico, a sports complex...

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Carlo Scarpa

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Carlo Scarpa" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Carlo Scarpa (1906 — 1978) Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906 - November 28, 1978) was an influential Italian architect and designer deeply rooted in the rich cultural history of Venice. He began his career...

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Patrick Naggar

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Patrick Naggar" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Patrick Naggar Architect, artist and designer, Patrick Naggar received his diploma in Architecture (DPLG) from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and a Master degree in Urban Studies from the University of Paris VIII. Naggar considers...

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Roger Capron

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Roger Capron" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Roger Capron Roger Capron, a versatile ceramic artist who made a mark in the 1960s and 1980s, is celebrated as one of the leading ceramicists of his time. In 1946, Capron relocated to...

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Pierre Guariche

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Pierre Guariche" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Pierre Guariche After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decorative in Paris, Pierre Guariche began an internship with Marcel Gascoin, an important designer of the postwar period. His career began to...

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Philolaos Tloupas

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Philolaos Tloupas" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Philolaos Tloupas (1923 – 2010) Philolaos Tloupas, artist name Philolaos was a Greek sculptor. He was known for his architecturally influenced sculpture, which he combined with a strongly natural and organic tendency. [/vc_column_text] [/vc_tab] [/vc_tabs] [/vc_column] [/vc_row]...

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Mies Van der Rohe

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Mies Van der Rohe" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Mies Van der Rohe (1886 – 1969) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a pioneering architect, was a central figure in shaping the International Style of modern architecture, alongside renowned contemporaries like...

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Maxime Old

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maxime Old" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Maxime Old (1910 – 1991) Maxime Old, born on December 13, 1910, in Maisons-Alfort, a Parisian suburb, came from a lineage of fine cabinetmakers in the Faubourg St. Antoine, a hub of this...

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LAO (Lyceum of Arts and Crafts)

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="LAO (Lyceum of Arts and Crafts), LAO, Lyceum of Arts and Crafts" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] LAO (Lyceum of Arts and Crafts) The Lyceum of Arts and Crafts was founded in 1872 by craftsmen and artists to offer professional...

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Josef Hoffmann

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Josef Hoffmann" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Josef Hoffmann (1870 — 1956) Hoffmann emerged as a leading advocate of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or the concept of a “total work of art,” in Vienna. Profoundly skilled and remarkably prolific, he ventured into...

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Guillerme et Chambron

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Guillerme et Chambron" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Guillerme et Chambron Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the Boulle School in France, graduating at the top of his class in 1934. Jacques Chambron, on the other hand, graduated from...

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Giuseppe Scapenelli

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Giuseppe Scapenelli" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Giuseppe Scapenelli (1911 — 1982) Giuseppe Scapinelli was born in Modena in 1911. Hailing from a noble Italian family, he graduated in architecture in 1941. In 1948, he left Italy for São Paulo...

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Geraldo de Barros

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Geraldo de Barros" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Geraldo de Barros (1923 — 1998) Geraldo de Barros was a Brazilian painter and photographer who also worked in engraving, graphic arts, and industrial design. He was a leader of the Concrete...

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Francois Monnet

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Francois Monnet" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Francois Monnet (1946 —) Monnet grew up in the 1960s and was inspired by the artistic atmosphere of that time. In the art world, a multitude of powerful changes were also taking place....

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Fontana Arte

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Fontana Arte" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Fontana Arte Fontana Arte is the artistic division of Luigi Fontana & Co., a glass manufacturing company founded by Luigi Fontana. The renowned architect Gio Ponti established the Fontana Arte division in 1932....

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Bruno Gecchelin

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Bruno Gecchelin" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Bruno Gecchelin Bruno Gecchelin, born in Milan in 1939, graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic School in 1976. He then opened a design studio specializing in various product areas, from car accessories to...

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Branco e Preto

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Branco e Preto" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Branco e Preto In the São Paulo of the 1950s, a group of architects consisting of Roberto Aflalo, Jacob Ruchti, Miguel Forte, Plínio Croce, Carlos Milan and Chen Yhwa got together to...

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Afra & Tobia Scarpa

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Afra & Tobia Scarpa" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Afra & Tobia Scarpa Tobia Scarpa, an architect and designer, completed his education in 1969 at the University of Venice. In the same year, he achieved the prestigious “Compasso d’Oro” award...

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Jean Royère

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jean Royere" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jean Royère (1929 — 1981) Referred to as "one of the most audacious, free-spirited decorators of the twentieth century," Jean Royère was historically supported by an alluring international clientele, and continues to be...

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Vince Palacios

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Vince Palacios" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Vince Palacios (1961 — ) Vince Palacios has been working in the field of ceramic art since 1988. Palacios received his Masters of Ceramic Art from Alfred University and his BFA in ceramics...

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Philippe Starck

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Philippe Starck" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Philippe Starck (1949 — ) Philippe Starck, (born 1949 in Paris), is French designer known for his wide range of designs, including everything from interior design to household objects to boats to watches....

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Ranya Sarakbi & Niko Koronis

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Ranya Sarakbi & Nino Koronis" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Niko Koronis & Ranya Sarakbi Niko Koronis is an architect with master degrees in both architecture and product design. In addition, he is also a recipient of a PhD in...

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Sergio Rodrigues

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Sergio Rodrigues" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Sergio Rodrigues (1927 — 2014) Sergio Rodrigues was a Brazilian Carioca architect and designer. Along with Joaquim Tenreiro and José Zanine Caldas, he was a pioneer when transforming the Brazilian design in industrial...

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Namika Atelier

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Namika Atelier" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] HALA MATTA (1970 — ) Hala Matta was born in Beirut in 1970. After 20 fruitful years in the corporate world, she decides to pursue a career as a ceramicist. Trained in the...

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MARIAGROUP

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maria Group" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] MARIAGROUP MARIAGROUP is a design studio led by the brother and sister duo Georges and Michèle Maria. Based in Beirut, the architecture practice undertakes works of all scales, spanning from small interior projects to...

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Marguerite le Maire

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Marguerite le Maire Rug" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Marguerite Le Maire Marguerite Le Maire is a French Illustrator and textile designer. This double vocation allows her to conceive audacious and tailor-made rugs and carpets. Each design is a unique...

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Georges Mohasseb

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Georges Mohasseb" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Georges Mohasseb (1973 — ) Georges Mohasseb (born in 1973 in Lebanon) is an architect and designer. He studied architecture in Washington D.C, at Ecole Boulle in Paris and Domus Academy in Milan. In...

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Gilbert Valentin

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gilbert Valentin" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Gilbert Valentin (1928 — 2000) [/vc_column_text] [/vc_tab] [/vc_tabs] [/vc_column] [/vc_row]...

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Joaquim Tenreiro

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Joaquim Tenreiro" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Joaquim Tenreiro (1906 — 1992) Joaquim Tenreiro was among the leading furniture designers and visual artists in mid-20th century Brazil. Tenreiro was born in Portugal into a family of woodworkers and carpenters. In the late...

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Bruno Gatta

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Bruno Gatta" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Bruno Gatta (1904 — 1976) Bruno Gatta founded Stilnovo in 1946 in Lainate, a city part of the industrial suburbs of Milano. Stilnovo is lead by a market logic unlike Arredoluce or O’Luce...

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Eric Astoul

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Eric Astoul" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Eric Astoul (1954 — ) Eric Astoul is a contemporary French ceramic artist born in 1954. He is moving to the world reknown ceramic center of La Borne in 1982 and starts a...

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Angelo Lelli

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Angelo Lelli" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Angelo Lelli (1915 — 1979) In 1947 that he founded Arredoluce, a premier manufacturer of furniture and lighting, in Monza. During the same year, at the VIII Triennale di Milano, he exhibited the lamp 12128, which...

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Martin Szekely

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Martin Szekely" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Martin Szekely (1956 — ) Martin Szekely is the son of ceramist Véra Székely and sculptor Pierre Székely. His work comes to prominence with his design of the « Pi » long chair in...

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Maria Pergay

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maria Pergay" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Maria Pergay (1930 — ) Maria Pergay was born in Moldavie in 1930 and emigrated to Paris in 1937. In 1947, she studied at L'Idhec as well as the atelier of Zadkine. Pgay...

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Jose Zanine Caldas

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jose Zanine Caldas" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jose Zanine Caldas (1918 — 2001) Born in Bahia, in the North of Brazil, the self-taught designer, artist and architect moved to Rio and started an architectural scale model workshop where he...

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Gino Sarfatti

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gino Sarfatti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text]   Gino Sarfatti (1912 — 1985) Gino Sarfatti was an Italian and designer. After his studies in engineering, he became one of the leading designers of the Italian company Arteluce Company from 1939. Arteluce quickly...

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Martin Eisler & Carlo Hauner

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Martin Eisler & Carlo Hauner, Martin Eisler, Carlo Hauner" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Carlo Hauner (1927 — 1997) & Martin Eisler (1913 — 1977) Hauner & Eisler were the primary designers for the iconic Brazilian furniture company Forma -...

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Jorge Zalszupin

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jorge Zalszupin" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jorge Zalszupin (1922 — ) Jorge Zalszupin was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied architecture in Bucharest before moving to Paris to work as an architect, and then to Brazil in the late...

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Garouste & Bonetti

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Garouste & Bonetti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Elizabeth Garouste (French, born 1949), a former costume designer, and Mattia Bonetti (Swiss, born 1952), a photographer, together used to form a Paris-based design team specializing in furniture that was at once...

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Gio Ponti

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"][qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="3" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gio Ponti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"][vc_column_text] One of the most influential designers of the mid-20th century,  Gio Ponti (1891-1979) helped to establish Italy as a global design center through a diverse career that spanned architecture, industrial design, art, and...

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Ettore Sottsass

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="3" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Ettore Sottsass" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Ettore Sottsass (1917 — 2007) Ettore Sottsass was an italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design. In 1956, Ettore...

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