Week5 Equisse3 Form VS Function

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3 Portfolio of Furniture History

Furniture History List 3

Ettore Sottsass, Carlton, room divider for Memphis (1981)

Ettore Sottsass was a grandee of late 20^th century Italian designer. Best known as the founder of early 1980s Memphis collective. In 1981, he started the Memphis group, known for its design featured plastic laminate surface, brilliant color and bold patterns. Their works also focus on the popular culture. His classic work is Calton bookshelf, It looks like the blocks which kids’ toy. This design are worthly of reflection “what is function”, because although it is a shelf, but it just can take a few things.

Tom Dixon, Pylon Chair (1992)

Tom Dixon is a British designer who designs furniture without formal training in his early 20s. His work taking on a strongly sculptural feel in its adoption of ready-made industrial objects or scrap that were welded together in the fabrication of furniture and fittings. His Pylon Chair is a very unique new classic construction made of iron wire.

Bibliography:

Pina, Leslie A., 1947, Fifties Furniture: Book for Designers and Collectors, 2^nd Ed., and expanded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dixon_(industrial_designer)

Furniture History List 2

Harry Bertoia, Diamond Chair (1952)

Harry Bertoia is a sculptor, university lecturer and furniture designer in Italy. He also is an inventor of form of furniture design with new materials. He also explored the modern design with his line of metal wire furniture for Knoll Associate in 1952. His diamond chair and bird chair based on wire grids. Many people inspirit from his idea of chair through the metal.

Charles and Ray Eames, LCM dining chair (1946)

Charles and Ray Eames are the couple that married in 1941, their design became an important souse of modern design from 1941 to 1978. They also worked at industrial design, architecture, graphic design and film. Their furniture is modern design with plywood material. Also the Eames pioneered innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass, plastic resin chair and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller.

Bibliography:

Pina, Leslie A., 1947, Fifties Furniture: Book for Designers and Collectors, 2^nd Ed., and expanded.

Furniture History List 1

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona Chair (1948)

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s designs also are the symbol in Bauhaus and later modernism. He was a famous architect in German. He’s design inspiration from his most admirable designers Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In furniture design, van der Rohe is best known for the Brno chair and the Barcelona series for Knoll International; the day bed, chair, stool and table all being exquisite examples of twentieth century design which Aram Store stocks.

Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair (1925)

Marcel was one of the inventive designer in Bauhaus. He creates the first bent tubular steel chair, which revolutionized design and technique in this furniture design field. Also the Wassily Chair is a symbol of the industrial heroism and engineering invention of the early 20th century. He also explored new materials as aluminum and plywood to create new form of furniture.

Bibliography:

Pina, Leslie A., 1947, Fifties Furniture: Book for Designers and Collectors, 2^nd Ed., and expanded.