Furniture Design

The following pages will attempt to examine classic furniture and influencial furniture designers.
These pages may not only assist you with your own project work but may also prove to be a useful resource when studying one aspect of the AS and A level Product Design Course, 'Design In Society'.

Alvar Aalto

Organically designed plywood and birch laminated furniture.

Marcel Breuer

Architect and Furniture Designer.

Ettore Sottsass

The Memphis Group and Ettore Sottsass

Phillipe Starck

Contemporary designer

Eero Aarnio

Designer of those famous fibreglass chairs

Robin Day

Designer of the 'Polyprop chair'

The Zoeftig Company

The Antelope and BA 3

Ernest Race

Race furniture

Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni.

The Sharecroppers stool

The Telephone stool

 

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