Above Picture: Model 66 sideboard designed by Kofod-Larsen and manufactured by Faarup in the 1950’s. Photo: The Modern Warehouse Born in 1921 Danish architect and designer Ib Kofod Larsen’s pieces have become increasingly more desirable to collectors. With an innate feeling for the material his designs are often a rather striking standout among the works
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The American dream, well designed
Above Picture: Eichler Home designed by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons in 1960. Photo: eichlersocal.com “My first vision for Apple” – Steve Jobs reflecting upon the clean lines and open esthetics of the Eichler home in which he grew up. Born in 1900 Joseph Eichler was an American real estate developer known for creating
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More than academic
Above Photo: The Farnsworth House. Located in Plano, Illinois it was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1951. “The essentials for living are floor and roof. Everything else is proportion and nature. Whether the house pleases or not is inconsequential.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Sitting quietly on the banks of
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Mixing it up
There is no such thing as purity in design. To suggest that design is ‘pure’ is to say that an object exists without influence or to say that it is not the product of the ongoing evolution of design and its various manifests. All design is very much a product of that which has come
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Above Image: Floating seat and back sofa designed by Vladimir Kagan. Framed in sculpted walnut it was produced by Kagan-Dreifuss, New York in 1952. Photo: Ross Floyd for Wright “Vladimir Kagan is the creative grandfather of a whole new generation of designers.” – The New York Times The son of a cabinetmaker Vladimir Kagan was
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Above: Charlotte Perriand at the Corbusier Studio in Paris. Photo by: Pierre Jeanneret “There is one thing I never did, and that was flirt. That is, I didn’t ‘dabble’. I created and produced and my job was important. There was mutual respect, mutual recognition.” –Charlotte Perriand It cannot go unnoticed that many women Modernist designers
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