History of Furniture Final
1903 went to school for decorative art, prestigiously talented, impressed corbouse with bar in the attic exhibition and was hired immediately. 1929 started the society UAM for French designers rejecting decorative arts. Invited to teach in japan about modernism stuck in Asia until her 40s.
Charlotte Perriand
different market segment then American furniture
Designs for Kartell by Anna Castelli Ferrieri and husband
Natural - Prehistory to CA 1800 ce Ex. Amber lacquer, shellac, papermache Semi-synthetic 1800 to 1900 Ex. Vulcanite 1830s Parkensine 1840s, Celluoid 1870 Synthetic - 1900 forward Ex. Bakelite 1907 (Phenolic Resin), Nylon 1930s, metamine, polystyrene, polyeurithane, etc
Development of Plastics
originally from Ireland but at 18 convinces her family to let her go to Art school in England. There she got to experience restoring furniture. At 24 moves to Paris and meets Seizo Sugawara a lacquer expert. Team of expert lacquer workers. Collaborative furniture. In 1929 she shifts to architecture
Eileen Gray
is Cluster Style - mission/religion style, eliminates ornament, useful and beautiful, massed produce
Lifetime Furniture
investments with loss for publicity. Eero Saarinen designed the Pedestal Chair for Knoll Associates in Museum and showrooms
Loss Leader
French King during revolutionary monarchy generalized antique French Neoclassical looking 2000$. You can buy a piece that looks the same for 300$ in China. Became a style of Furniture.
Louis Phillipe collection
making a lot, division of labor and distribution
Mass production is 3 things:
relationship between modernism and manufacturing
Pell Manufacturing Co.
Produced Breuer Chair 1928 and other German modernism designs
Thonet Co.
wealthy man born in England, 22 years old.
William Morris