Wim Rietveld Dutch industrial and furniture designer. Son of the well-known Gerrit Rietveld.
his high quality graduation project brought him to W. H. Gispen. he started working for his Gispen furniture company. In the middel of the postwar reconstruction in the Netherlands, so materials were scarce.
Wim Rietveld was employed at Gispen from 1953 till 1957. He was talented in combining aesthetics and functionality in his furniture, and was able to devise simple production techniques. He was a typically Dutch designer in his love for construction and functionality.
Jindřich Halabala created a mass-market approach to home design furnishing in Czechoslovakia.
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.
Danish architect Hans J. Wegner is considered a pioneer as furniture designer in the twentieth century.
Innovative architect, industrial designer, and urban planner Vico Magistretti was a driving force in Italian design from the 1960s onwards.
Dutch designer and architect.
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