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The Japanese designer, Noboru Nakamura , created the original "Poem" chair in 1975 in collaboration with product manager Lars Engman, who later headed up the IKEA design team. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The design of both the Poem and Poäng chairs resemble that of the " Armchair 406 ," created by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1939.
Sweetheart chair, as used in soda shops, also known as a "parlor chair" and an "ice cream chair" (from use in ice cream parlors); the wire frame in the center of the back curls in a manner to suggest a heart design but the term "sweetheart chair" also has a more generic usage and refers to any chair with a heart-shaped design in the center of ...
The first thing to understand about New Chinese Design is that it is foremost a design reform movement. Ideologically guided, it has been responsible for an extraordinary renaissance within Chinese furniture design, the first green shoots of which began to emerge in isolation with the designs of Samuel Chan in Britain during the late 1980s. [4]
During the Dynastic Period, which began in around 3200 BCE, Egyptian art developed significantly, and this included furniture design. [14] Egyptian furniture was primarily constructed using wood, but other materials were sometimes used, such as leather, [15] and pieces were often adorned with gold, silver, ivory and ebony, for decoration. [15]
Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture, fittings, and interior decoration .
The first Art Nouveau houses appeared in Brussels in 1893, including the Hotel Tassel designed by Victor Horta.Horta designed not only the house and decor but also the furniture, which featured the same nature-inspired curling whiplash lines which were featured in the architecture, wrought iron balcony and stairway railings, ceramic floors, and door handles.
The Kitchen in History, Osprey; 1972; ISBN 0-85045-068-3; Kinchin, Juliet and Aidan O'Connor, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen (MoMA: New York, 2011) Lupton, E. and Miller, J. A.: The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste, Princeton Architectural Press; 1996; ISBN 1-56898-096-5.
Panton made a series of sketches and design drawings for the Panton Chair in the 1950s. In 1960 , he created his first model, a plaster-cast, in collaboration with Dansk Akrylteknik. [ 2 ] In the mid-1960s, he met Willi Fehlbaum from the furniture manufacturer Vitra who, unlike many other producers, was fascinated with the drawings of his ...