This year’s winners of the Design Guild Marks have very diverse styles. Most of them are friends and partners of Après Furniture and we congratulate them all for this recognition. Even if these awards are quite young, only in the 6th year, they put a stamp of excellence in British furniture designs. Here is an overview of the winners:
Vitra received a new recognition for the Tip Ton chair designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. The
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Furniture designer and architect Frank Gehry was born on 28th of February 1929 in Toronto, Canada. He has created inspiring designs and is well known for his use of unusual materials. We wish him a Happy birthday! Have a look below at our favourite of his Vitra furniture items:
Gehry studied urban planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, then founded the architectural firm Frank Gehry & Associates in Los Angeles in 1962. He designed the cardboard
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GrumDesign studio was founded in 1989 by Troels Grum-Schwensen, an award-winning designer who specialises in furniture and interior design, architecture and exhibitions. Through the years, Grum has created some innovative furniture pieces.
The studio works with both Danish and international furniture-manufacturers, including our partner Randers+Radius. They have manufactured the incredible Grip Table. It was inspired by tightrope walkers who balance by means of a long pole – gravity challenging balance. Grip tables become
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Born on 13th February 1926, furniture designer Verner Panton had a passion for bright colours and geometric patterns. He created brilliant products that to this day are added to interiors and are a source of inspiration for contemporary artists.
Bright colours, innovative shapes, unused materials and futuristic ideas – this is how Verner Panton’s products can be characterised. Even if his style represents the ’60s, his creations are still manufactured by Vitra, for example. As the Design Museum’s
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What better occasion to have a look at the design creations of Ray and Charles Eames than the 100th birthday celebration of Ray on December 15, 2012. Celebrate Ray’s life and work as a painter, furniture and textile designer…
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser was born in 1912 in Sacramento, California, but moved to New York City to study abstract expressionist painting with Hans Hofmann. She came from a creative middle-class family, her father used to be a theatre manager. After
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Isamu Noguchi was a master of sculptured furniture. He created impressive furniture and lighting designs that put a mark on 20th century design. We celebrate his life and work on his birthday, the 17th November.
Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles, California, in 1904, was an American-Japanese sculptor whose artistic experimentation included sculptures, gardens, furniture and lighting designs, ceramics, and architecture. Influenced by his Japanese origins, Isamu Noguchi designs are subtle and bold,
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Ernest Race, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1913, was a textile and furniture designer, manufacturer and retailer. He is one of the most ground-breaking exponents of British design in the mid-20th-century, his career leaving a mark on post-war furniture designs and the Festival of Britain.
Race studied interior design at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture. Shortly after graduation he was employed as a draughtsman for the lighting firm Troughton & Young, where he met many of the leading British and
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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby (both born in 1969) are the two architects and interior designers who founded Barber Osgerby, an architecture and design studio, in 1996.
Their latest project, of which you have probably heard a lot lately, included the design of the Torch for the 2012 Olympics in London and of Vitra’s Tip Ton chair. Both projects were nominated for Design of the Year 2012 award.
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To world wide designers, Sori Yanagi was an inspiration and icon. Sori died in December, aged 96, leaving us with some great furniture designs.
One of his most loved designs is the Butterfly stool, an iconic piece of bent plywood which he designed back in 1956. Also, he created the Elephant Stool which is one of the most famous post-war Japanese designs because of its clear formal
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MVS Chaise
5 June 1956, Antwerp, Belgium- birth day and place of Maarten Van Severen, a famous furniture designer whom we owe some of the best contemporary designs. Because we like him and receive many requests for his works, today we celebrate him in a new blog post of “Our famous Designers” category.
Maarten Van Severen studied architecture at Ghent art school, completed three years and then went to work
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