Jindřich Halabala created a mass-market approach to home design furnishing in Czechoslovakia.
As chief designer of the large Brno-based furniture producer United Arts and Crafts Manufacture, he influenced its manufacturing programme from the 1930s on pioneering the industrial manufacture of furniture by uniquely blending the functionalist principles of Bauhaus with the graceful shapes of Art Deco and the skills of Czech carpenters. He believed furniture could and should be well-finished, fully functional, widely affordable.
Martine Le Forestier is a French designer born September 3th 1945.
She studied in Paris at the ENS AMAA, National School of Applied Arts and Crafts. In 1969 she won a price with her design of this lamp.
Jewelry designer Franck Ligtelijn (1933-1996) became part of the design team at renowned Dutch lighting manufacturer Raak in the early 1960s
Friso Kramer thinks in large numbers, in mass production. He was very curious, but he didn’t think of anything just because he liked it, there was always a good reason. he didn’t want to compromise. The more impossible the assignment, the better he liked it. “When someone comes up with a problem, it inspires me endlessly to come to a solution,” his own words.
Louis C. Kalff (1897-1976), art director and designer at Philips
born December 4, 1927. The Italian designer of light and interior,
was born in Varedo in 1911. Son of Gaetano, a well-known furniture maker in his “Atelier di Varedo”. In the family business, 16-year-old Osvaldo receives the first training
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