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2. Mid-century modern - Wikipedia

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   Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.

3. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   Short visual history of furniture styles (from left to right): cloisonné plaque (), Chair of Reniseneb (Ancient Egyptian), metal brazier with satyrs from Pompei (Greco-Roman), fall-front cabinet inlaid with ivory (), low-back armchair (), casket with images of Cupids (), wood and ivory furniture fragment (), chest (), analogion (Romanian Medieval), sideboard with two bodies (Renaissance ...

4. Noguchi table - Wikipedia

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   The Noguchi table was an evolution of a rosewood and glass table Noguchi designed in 1939 for A. Conger Goodyear, president of the Museum of Modern Art. [1] The design team at Herman Miller was so impressed by the table's use of biomorphism that they recruited Noguchi to design a similar table with a freeform sculptural base and biomorphic glass top for use in both residential and office ...

5. Cesca chair - Wikipedia

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   The three official manufacturers of the chair were Thonet (from 1927), Gavina (1950s), and Knoll (1960s). [7] In 1928, the Cesca chair was the first such tubular-steel-frame, caned-seat chair to be mass-produced. [8] It was among the ten most common such chairs. One of the original ones from that time sits in the Museum of Modern Art in ...

6. Charles and Ray Eames - Wikipedia

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   Among the many important designs originating there are the molded-plywood DCW (Dining Chair Wood) and DCM (Dining Chair Metal with a plywood seat) (1945); Eames Lounge Chair (1956); the Aluminum Group furniture (1958); the Eames Chaise (1968), designed for Charles's friend and film director, Billy Wilder; [9] the Solar Do-Nothing Machine (1957 ...

7. Thomas Chippendale - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Chippendale (June 1718 – 1779) was an English woodworker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director—the most important collection of furniture designs published in England to that point which created a mass market for ...