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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 light a certain
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Designer of the Week: Grant Featherston
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
It’s been a while since we talked about a designer that
wasn’t entirely American or European. The mid-century modernist movement
spanned the entire world in many different ways, as we have mentioned
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Designer of the Week: Arne Jacobsen
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 14th 2018
Copenhagen,
1902. Danish merchant Johan Jacobsen and his wife Pouline, a bank clerk, have
just given birth to a son that they named Arne. The child’s restlessness and
artistic prowess both flourish
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Designer of the Week - Hans Wegner
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 9th 2018
Creator of the
iconic, and weird, Flag Halyard chair, the Peacock chair, and a 1949 design
that’s just called “The Chair”, we present to you
Hans Jorgensen Wegner: Da
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Fall TV Season is here and you need a better couch
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Oct 24th 2018
If you’re
looking to stay indoors this Halloween, checking out all of the good stuff
that’s coming to Netflix this fall, and all the Blu-Ray releases currently
being released, then you might need t
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Designer of the Week - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Oct 22nd 2018
German-born
architect Mies van der Rohe was one of the directors of the influential Bauhaus
school in the years before World War II. He was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
and later renamed himself
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