bookcase
Ico Parisi was an Italian architect and designer.
Achille Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer of furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not curious, forget it. If you are not interested in others, what they do and how they act, then being a designer is not the right job for you."
Giovanni (Gio) Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Thomas Chippendale was a cabinet-maker 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 furniture—upon which success he became renowned. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, «so influential were his designs, in Britain and throughout Europe and America, that "Chippendale" became a shorthand description for any furniture similar to his Director designs».
