Charles Ormond Eames was born on 17th June 1907 in Missouri. He had a keen interest in art, sculpture and mechanics, and was to become an American designer, architect and filmmaker. Having studied architecture at both Washington University and the Cranbrook Academy of Art at the request of the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, Eames showed [...] [Read More..]
Eero Aarnio was a Finnish designer born in 21st July 1932. He studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts in Helsinki between 1954 and 1957, showing a keen interest in and skill for creating designer objects from plastic. However, far from being reduced to interior decoration and industrial design, Aarnio also worked as a graphic [...] [Read More..]
Poul M. Volther, born in 1923, was a Danish furniture designer who was one of the making of the iconic modernist generation. Volther first trained as a cabinetmaker and studied furniture design at the Arts and Crafts School in Copenhagen, of which he chose to employ the ideology of practicality in the foundations of his [...] [Read More..]
Mart Stam was born in the Netherlands in 1899 and spent his adult life studying construction and design, quickly to become a leader in the world of modern architecture. Having initially taken on an apprenticeship in carpentry and teaching drawing, in 1922 he moved to Berlin to work as an architect and later gained a [...] [Read More..]