Modern Furniture Blog
Designer of the week: Charlotte Perriand
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
Born in 1903, Perriand was a French architect and designer
who believed that better furniture would inevitably lead to a better society.
Though this might seem, for some, a very naïve o
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7 Types of Lighting Terms That You Should Know About
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
We recently wrote a series of articles on the three
different types of lighting, and we invite you to check them out. On those
pieces we talked about a lot of stuff, primarily how to li
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Designer of the week: Gerrit Rietveld
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
The Dutch were always a very influential part of the
Scandinavian Modern movement, if not the most important, as many would argue.
From those influential designers, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld stands
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The 3 different types of lighting explained by Manhattan Home Design
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
One of the best-known decorating clichés is that lighting is
everything. It is what makes or breaks a room, as it makes colors look
different and accentuates certain parts while keeping
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Designer of the week: Florence Knoll
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
Knoll is a big name in furniture, and we don’t necessarily
mean Florence. The name itself represents the big conglomerate that she helped
found, but that sometimes contributed to her ov
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Designer of the Week: Frank Lloyd Wright
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
Furniture was an essential part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s
philosophy and upbringing as a designer, even though most people know him as
the creator of organic architecture. His most famous
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