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70 relations: Alessi (Italian company), American Furniture Warehouse, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Art Van, Barcelona chair, Bauhaus, BoConcept, Chaise Longue (Le Corbusier), Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Commemorative stamp, Commodification, De Stijl, Decorative arts, Dessau, Deutscher Werkbund, Duravit, E-1027, Edo period, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Functionalism (architecture), Gerrit Rietveld, Habitat (retailer), Hannes Meyer, Hermann Muthesius, Hille (furniture), Human factors and ergonomics, IKEA, Isamu Noguchi, Japonism, Jean Badovici, Kartell, Le Corbusier, Ligne Roset, Lilly Reich, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mid-century modern, Modani Furniture, Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Nazism, Neoclassicism, Noguchi table, Nonconformist, Peter Behrens, ..., Pharaoh, Philip Johnson, Piet Mondrian, Plastic, Polypropylene, Red and Blue Chair, Robin Day (designer), Roman citizenship, Royal Mail, Second Industrial Revolution, Transitional Style, Victorian decorative arts, Villa Savoye, Ville-d'Avray, Vitra (furniture), Walter Gropius, Wassily Chair, Wassily Kandinsky, World War II, 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Expand index (20 more) »
Alessi (Italian company)
Alessi is a housewares and kitchen utensil company in Italy, producing everyday items from plastic and metal, created by famous designers.
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American Furniture Warehouse
American Furniture Warehouse (AFW) is a privately held furniture retailer headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.
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Art Van
Art Van Furniture Inc. is an American furniture retail store chain.
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Barcelona chair
The Barcelona chair is a chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
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Bauhaus
Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.
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BoConcept
BoConcept is the brand name of Denmark's most global retail furniture chain with more than 265 stores in over 60 countries around the world.
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Chaise Longue (Le Corbusier)
Chaise Longue - LC4 is a chaise longue designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier and French architect Charlotte Perriand.
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Charles and Ray Eames
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist.
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Commemorative stamp
A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.
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Commodification
Commodification is the transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into commodities, or objects of trade.
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De Stijl
De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Leiden.
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Decorative arts
The decorative arts are arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of beautiful objects that are also functional.
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Dessau
Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt.
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Deutscher Werkbund
The Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen) is a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, established in 1907.
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Duravit
Duravit AG, founded in 1817 and headquartered in Hornberg, Germany, is primarily a manufacturer of porcelain bathroom fittings.
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E-1027
E-1027 is a modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish-born French-based architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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Functionalism (architecture)
In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on the purpose and function of the building.
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Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
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Habitat (retailer)
Habitat Retail Ltd, trading as Habitat is a retailer of household furnishings in the United Kingdom.
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Hannes Meyer
Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (November 18, 1889 – July 19, 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (in Dessau) from 1928 to 1930.
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Hermann Muthesius
Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the Bauhaus.
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Hille (furniture)
Hille (is a British Modern furniture manufacturer which is especially noted for its range of Modernist chairs. Its products have been influential in the history of interior design and the company has been engaged internationally in a number of major design projects, including furnishings for the Royal Festival Hall and Gatwick Airport. A number of prominent furniture designers have worked for Hille, including Robin Day and Fred Scott.
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Human factors and ergonomics
Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as Human Factors), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the (engineering and) design of products, processes, and systems.
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IKEA
IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group, that designs and sells, kitchen appliances and home accessories.
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Isamu Noguchi
was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.
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Japonism
First described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872, Japonism, from the French Japonisme, is the study of Japanese art and artistic talent.
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Jean Badovici
Jean Badovici (6 January 1893 – 17 August 1956) was a French architect of Romanian origin and architecture critic active in Paris.
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Kartell
Kartell is an Italian company that makes and sells plastic contemporary furniture.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
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Ligne Roset
Ligne Roset is a French modern furniture company that has over 200 stores and more than 1,000 retail distributors worldwide.
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Lilly Reich
Lilly Reich (16 June 1885-14 December 1947) was a German modernist designer.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.
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Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect, and furniture designer.
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Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983), German painter, sculptor, photographer and designer who studied at the Bauhaus school and became head of the metal workshop in 1928.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.
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Mid-century modern
Mid-century modern is the design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1945 to 1975.
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Modani Furniture
Modani Furniture is a furniture manufacturer and retail company headquartered in Miami, FL, with branches in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.
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Noguchi table
The Noguchi table is a piece of modernist furniture first produced in the mid-20th century.
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Nonconformist
In English church history, a nonconformist was a Protestant who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the established Church of England.
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Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a German architect and designer.
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Pharaoh
Pharaoh (ⲡⲣ̅ⲣⲟ Prro) is the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BCE) until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire in 30 BCE, although the actual term "Pharaoh" was not used contemporaneously for a ruler until circa 1200 BCE.
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Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect.
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Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (later; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
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Plastic
Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.
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Polypropylene
Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications.
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Red and Blue Chair
The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld.
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Robin Day (designer)
Robin Day, OBE, FCSD (25 May 1915 – 9 November 2010): Lesley Jackson, ‘Robin Day: Designer best known for his Polypropylene stacking chair’, The Independent, Friday, 19 November 2010 was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven decades.
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Roman citizenship
Citizenship in ancient Rome was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance.→.
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Royal Mail
Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.
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Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
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Transitional Style
Transitional Style (also known as "updated classic for men", "classic with a contemporary twist", "new takes on old classics") in interior design and furniture design refers to a contemporary blend of traditional and modern styles, midway between old world traditional and the world of chrome and glass contemporary; incorporating lines that are less ornate than traditional designs, but not as severely basic as contemporary lines.
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Victorian decorative arts
Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era.
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Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.
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Ville-d'Avray
Ville-d'Avray is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France.
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Vitra (furniture)
Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company with headquarters in Birsfelden, Switzerland.
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Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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Wassily Chair
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1929 Barcelona International Exposition
The 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (also 1929 Barcelona Universal Exposition, or Expo 1929, in Catalan: Exposició Internacional de Barcelona de 1929) was the second World Fair to be held in Barcelona, the first one being in 1888.
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