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John Gloag (10 August 1896 – 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture, as well as science and speculative fiction. [1] [2] Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home after suffering gas poisoning.
Frid's students include noted American studio furniture makers such as Hank Gilpin, Jere Osgood, [5] Alphonse Mattia, [6] William Keyser, John Dunnigan, and Rosanne Somerson. He was an editor of Fine Woodworking magazine from its inception in 1975 to his death. [2] In 2001, Tage Frid was honored by The Furniture Society with its Award of ...
Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.
David William Pye OBE (18 November 1914 – 1 January 1993), was Professor of Furniture Design at The Royal College of Art, 1964–1974. [1] Among his pupils were David Colwell (Trannon), Richard la Trobe Bateman, Charles Dillon, Jane Dillon, Floris van den Broecke and Roger Dean. [citation needed] Pye was an accomplished wood-turner and carver ...
In 1928, Le Corbusier and Perriand began to put the expectations for furniture Le Corbusier outlined in his 1925 book L'Art Décoratif d'aujourd'hui into practice. In the book he defined three different furniture types: type-needs, type-furniture, and human-limb objects. He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to ...
Robin Day, OBE, RDI, FCSD (25 May 1915 – 9 November 2010) [ 1] was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven decades. An accomplished industrial and interior designer, he was also active in the fields of graphics and exhibitions. His wife Lucienne Day, née Conradi (1917 ...
Paul R. Evans. Paul R. Evans II (20 May 1931 – 7 March 1987), known as Paul Evans, was an American -born furniture designer, sculptor, and artist, who is famous for his contributions to American furniture design and the American Craft movement of the 1970s, and with his work with the influential American manufacturer Directional Furniture.
22 October 1806 (aged 54–55) London. A Sheraton style chair with rectangular back. Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) [1] was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. [2] Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterized ...