Designers of influence 2014

1. DESIGN INFLUENCES
2014
Thomas Chippendale
William Morris
Michael Thonet
Charles Rennie McKintosh
Robert and James Adam
Florence Broadhurst
Marc Newson
Philipe Starck
Ron Arad
Ettore Sottsas
Marcel Breuer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Le Corbusier
Mies Van Der Rohe

2. Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale Lived 1718 to 1779, he was a London cabinet-maker and
furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In
1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet
Maker's Director. The designs are regarded as establishing the fashion for furniture
for that period and were used by many other cabinet makers.

3. WILLIAM MORRIS
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer
Despite his many designs for stained glass, textiles, tapestries, furniture, and books, it is
for his wallpapers that Morris is best known today. Reinventing the decorative
vocabulary of his time, Morris believed that "any decoration is futile … when it does not
remind you of something beyond itself." He turned to nature for inspiration, seeking to
"turn a room into a bower, a refuge." The English countryside, with its hedgerows and
native field and garden flowers, remained his touchstone throughout the period of over
thirty years

5. Michael Thonet
Brentwood chair
When Michael Thonet first introduced his
bentwood chair (the '14' now known today as
the '214' chair) in Vienna in 1859, little did he
know that he had created what would become
the first mass-produced chair in the world.
Since then this solid bent wood chair has been
in continuous production with over 50 million
chairs produced to date. Developed specifically
to appeal to - and be affordable by - broad
levels of the population, it was to launch
Thonet's international reputation in the 19th
century. Today, the company is run by the fifth
generation of the Thonet family.

6. Syrie Maugham
• Syrie Maugham (born Barnardo; 10 July 1879
– 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior
decorator of the 1920s and 1930s and best
known for popularizing rooms decorated
entirely in shades of white

9. Billy Haines

13. Dorothy Draper

18. Florence Broadhurst
Qld Australia

19. Florence Broadhurst
(28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977)
was an Australian designer and
businesswoman whose 1977
murder still remains a mystery.

22. Charles and Ray Eames
designed furniture in the middle of the 20th century and revolutionized the manufacture of chairs after they introduced the Eames chair to the world.
The Eames Chair
The construction of the Eames chair was a quest to make a single piece shell chair that fit the natural
contours of the body and was capable of mass production. Charles, with Ero Saarinen, won the Museum of Modern Art Organic Furniture competition in
1941. In 1945, the LCW would be called by Time magazine "the chair of the century." Although originally working with Heywood-Wakefield, the chair was
subsequently distributed and manufactured by Herman Miller. Herman Miller called it "the most advanced furniture being produced in the world today."
The Eames Shell Chair was also converted into the Eames Rocker by adding two runners to the design of the molded plastic chair legs.

23. Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer – Lajkó to his friends – was born on 21 May 1902 in the provincial city of Pecs, Hungary. His
early study and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the twenties introduced the wunderkind to
the older giants of the era of whom three – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius – were to have
life-long influence upon his professional life.
By the time he left Germany in 1935 to join Gropius in London, Breuer was one of the best-known designers in
Europe. His reputation was based upon his invention of tubular steel furniture, one big residence, two
apartment houses, some shop interiors and several competition entries.

24. Mies Van Der Rohe

25. Barcelona Pavilion

26. Barcelona Pavilion

27. Le Corbusier

28. Eileen Gray

31. Frank Lloyd Wright
Completed in 2008

32. Frank Lloyd Wright

35. Marc Newson Australia
Marc is one of the most acclaimed and influential designer of his generation. He has
worked across a wide range of disciplines, creating everything from furniture and
household objects, to bicycles and cars, private and commercial aircraft, yachts, various
architectural commissions, and signature sculptural pieces for clients across the globe
Orgone Lounge 1989
Lockheed Lounge 1986

37. Ettore Sottsas
Memphis 1980,s

38. Ron Arad
Bookworm shelf

39. Philipe Starck
Ghost chair

41. Current designers of influence

42. Kelly Wearstler

43. MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD

44. Kelly Hoppen