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Naoto Fukasawa. Naoto Fukasawa (深澤 直人; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, [1] working in the fields of product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborations with companies such as Herman Miller, Alessi, B&B Italia, Emeco, Magis, and ...
James Irvine RDI (1958 – 18 February 2013) was a British industrial designer who created furniture and product designs for many well known companies and brands such as Artemide, B&B Italia, Cappellini, Foscarini, Ikea, Magis, Muji, Thonet, and WMF. [1][2] He once described the product designer's job as “the work of an unknown hero.”.
The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle , a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...
The furniture of the Louis XV period (1715–1774) is characterized by curved forms, lightness, comfort and asymmetry; it replaced the more formal, boxlike and massive furniture of the Louis XIV style. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three distinct periods.
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Mission furniture is a style of furniture that originated in the late 19th century. It traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church. The term mission furniture was first popularized by Joseph P. McHugh of New York, a furniture manufacturer and retailer who copied these chairs and offered ...
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The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the ' bistro chair ', it was designed by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. [1][2] It is made using bent wood (steam-bending), and the design required years to perfect.