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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 furniture industry. However, some of the latest ones didn't even mention mid-century furniture at all. That is the reason why we're going to talk about Mr. Aalto. He was a Finnish architect and furniture designer an …

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 (a renowned British textile designer) he created modern pieces of furniture that helped Britain get into the mid-century modernist craze. High Wycombe was already famous as a furniture-production town many decades befor …

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 doing artistic work around Europe. Gray was mainly homeschooled when she was a child, but received formal art training at the Slade School in London in 1900, when she was 22 years old. She moved to Paris in 1902 and studied …

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 for his mastery, and for his simplicity. He’s primarily remembered for the Red and Blue chair, but also for his Rietveld Schröder House, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Having an architectural con …