Modern Furniture Blog
Designer of the Week - Alvar Aalto
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 21st 2019
After 20 DOTW articles, we were looking to do a little of a return to form. The more recent articles were longer, wodier, and featured both big and not-so-big names in the mid-century fur
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Designer of the Week: Robin Day
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 17th 2019
Mr. Robin Day, OBE, and a Fellow of the British Royal
Chartered Society of Designers, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,
England in 1915. Along with his wife, Lucienne Day
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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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Designer of the Week - Eileen Gray
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 14th 2019
Irish-French designer Eileen Gray was one of the most
prominent figures in early modernist design. She was born in 1878 in Wexford
County, Ireland, but spent most of her life doin
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Designer of the week: Finn Juhl
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Dec 10th 2018
Born in 1912, Finn Juhl is one of the
lesser known figures of the mid-century modernist movement, though for real
fans, he’s actually the very first. Primarily an architect and interior
designer, J
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