Follow
these links to biographical and design data about some of the individuals
who have made significant contributions in the fields of furniture and interior
design. The amount of information on each one varies from a paragraph to
a page to an entire website. Many of these links will take you to the excellent
web site, Great Buildings Online.
 Individuals
- Alvar
Aalto
/1898-1976/ Finnish architect and designer of furniture, lighting, textiles
and glass.
- Eero
Aarnio / 1932- / Finnish interior and industrial designer.
- James
Adam /1732-1794/ Scottish architect and designer.
- Robert
Adam /1728-1792/ Scottish architect and designer.
- Jacques
Adnet /1900-1984/ French architect and decorator.
- Jean
Adnet / French designer.
- André-Leon
Arbus /1903-1969/ French architect and decorator
- Charles
Robert Ashbee /1863-1942/ British architect, furniture, furnishings
and jewelry designer
- Hugh
Mackay Baillie Scott /1865-1945/ British architect and designer.
- Harry
Bertoia /1915-1978/ Italian furniture and jewelry designer, graphic
artist, sculptor and architect.
- Marcel
Breuer /1902-1981/ Hungarian architect and industrial designer.
- Carlo
Bugatti /1856-1940/ Italian designer and furniture maker.
- Jean
Burkhalter /1895-1984/ French designer and decorator.
- Wendell
Castle / 1932- / American furniture designer and maker.
- Adolphe
Chanaux /1887-1965/ French designer and interior decorator.
- Pierre
Chareau /1883-1950/ French architect and decorator.
- Thomas
Chippendale /1718-1779/ British designer and cabinetmaker.
- Le
Corbusier (b. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) /1887-1965/
Swiss architect.
- Djo-Bourgeois
(b. Édouard-Joseph Bourgeois) /1898- / French architect and interior
and furniture designer.
- Christopher
Dresser/1834-1904/ British industrial designer.
- Michel
Dufet /1888-1985/ French interior designer.
- Maurice
Dufrène /1876-1955/ French furniture designer.
- Paul
Dupré-Lafon /1900-1971/ French interior architect.
- Charles
Eames /1907-1978/ American architect-designer.
- Ray Eames
/1912-1988/ American designer.
- Charles
Locke Eastlake /1836-1906/ British designer and writer.
- Jean-Michel
Frank /1895-1941/ French furniture designer and interior decorator.
- Josef
Frank /1885-1967/ Austrian architect, interior, furniture and textile
designer.
- Frank
O. Gehry /1930- / Canadian architect, designer and artist.
- Alexander
Girard /1907-1993/ American textile, wallpaper, furniture and
exhibition designer.
- Edward
William Godwin /1833-1886/ British architect.
- Eileen
Gray /1878-1976/ Irish architect and designer
- Walter
Gropius /1883-1969 German architect.
- André
Groult /1884-1967/ French furniture, textile and wallpaper designer.
- Hector
Guimard /1867-1942 French architect and furniture designer.
- John
Hein /1955- / American furnituremaker
- René
Herbst /1891-1982/ Architect and designer.
- Joseph
Hoffmann /1870-1956 Moravian architect and designer.
- Victor
Horta /1861-1947 Belgian architect and designer.
- Pierre
Jeanneret /1896-1967/ Swiss architect and designer.
- Arne
Jacobsen /1902-1971/ Danish designer.
- Pierre
Jenneret / 1896-1967/ Swiss designer
- Donald
Judd /1928-1994/ American furniture designer and sculptor.
- Finn
Juhl /1912-1989/ Danish industrial designer and decorator.
- Pierre-Emile
Legrain /1889-1929/ French designer of furniture and furnishings.
- Jules-Émile
Leleu /1883-1961/ French sculptor and designer.
- Charles
Limbert /1854-1923/ American furniture designer.
- Raymond
Loewy /1893-1986 / American industrial designer.
- Charles
Rennie Mackintosh /1868-1928/ British architect and designer.
- Louis
Majorelle /1859-1926/ French designer and cabinetmaker.
- John
Makepeace /1939- / British furniture designer and maker.
- Robert
Mallet-Stevens /1886-1945/ French architect and designer.
- Carl
Malmsten /1888-1972/ Swedish furniture and textile designer and
maker.
- Sam
Maloof
/1916- /American furniture designer and maker.
- André
Mare /1887-1932 / French furniture designer and decorator.
- Bruno
Mathsson /1907- / Swedish designer and architect.
- Borge
Mogensen /1914-1972/ Danish furniture designer.
- Pierre-Paul
Montagnac / 1883-1961/ French decorator and furniture designer.
- William
Morris /1834-1896/ British writer, poet and designer.
- Koloman
Moser /1868-1918/ Austrian painter, designer, metalworker and graphic
artist.
- Friedrich
Eckart Muthesius /1904-1989/ German designer and architect.
- George
Nakashima /1905-1990/ American furniture designer and craftsman.
- George
Nelson /1907-1986/ American industrial designer.
- Isamu
Noguchi /1904-1988/ American sculptor and designer.
- Verner
Panton /1926- / Danish architect and designer.
- Charlotte
Perriand /1903- / French designer.
- Gio
Ponti /1891-1979/ Italian architect and designer.
- Eugéne
Printz /1889-1948/ French furniture designer and decorator.
- René
Prou /1889-1947/ French decorator and furniture designer.
- Jean
Prouvé /1901-1984 French metalworker and furniture designer
- Otto
Prutscher /1990-1949/ Austrian architect and furniture designer.
- A.W.N.
Pugin /1812-1852/ British architect and designer.
- Ernest
Race /1913-1964/ British furniture and industrial designer.
- Richard
Riemerschmid /1868-1957/ German architect and designer.
- Gerrit
Thomas Rietveld /1888-1964/ Dutch architect and furniture maker
and designer.
- Jens
Risom /1916- / Danish furniture designer.
- Terence
Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings /1905-1976/ British interior and furniture
designer.
- David
Roentgen 1743-1807 German designer and cabinetmaker.
- Gilbert
Rohde /1884-1944/ American industrial designer.
- Clément
Rousseau /1872-1950/ French industrial designer.
- Jean
Royère /1902-1981/ French decoration and furniture designer.
- Jacques-Émile
Ruhlmann /1879-1933/ French designer and decorator.
- Gordon
Russell /1892-1980/ British furniture maker and designer.
- R.D.
Russell /1903-1981/ British architect, furniture and industrial
designer.
- Eero
Saarinen /1910-1961/ Finnish architect.
- Eliel
Saarinen
/1873-1950/ Finnish architect and designer.
- Gustave
Serrurier-Bovy /1858-1910/ Belgian architect and designer
- Thomas
Sheraton /1751-1856/ British designer.
- Louis
Sognot /1892-1970/ French designer and architect.
- Mart
Stam (b. Martinus Adrianus Stam) /1899-1986/ Dutch designer.
- Philippe
Starck
/1949- / French product, furniture and interior designer.
- Gustav
Stickley /1858-1942/ American craftsman, furniture designer and
manufacturer.
- Louis
Süe /1875-1968 / French architect and decorator.
- Giuseppe
Terragni /1904-1943 Italian architect.
- Michael
Thonet /1796-1871/ German entrepreneur.
- Henry
Van de Velde /1863-1957/ Belgian architect and industrial designer.
- Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe/1886-1969 German architect and designer.
- Otto
Wagner /1841-1918/ Austrian architect and designer.
- Kem Weber
(b. Karl Emanuel Martin Weber) /1889-1963/ German designer.
- Hans
J. Wegner /1914- /Danish designer.
- Edward
Wormley / 1907- / American furniture designer.
- Frank
Lloyd Wright /1867-1959/ American architect, designer and theorist.
Source
of names for this list:
Byars, Mel. The Design Encyclopedia. New York: John Wiley
& Sons, 1994.
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