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The Arco Lamp: a Floor Lamp That Shines Even When You Are Not Using It
Posted by Eloy on Oct 4th 2021
Why could be a floor lamp so relevant in an interior decorating process? Choosing the perfect spot to place your floor lamp can be a challenge that requires a lot of cunning, strategy, and intuition t
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How comfortable is the Womb Chair, actually?
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Aug 7th 2020
Eero Saarinen
designed the Womb Chair in 1946 after a brief meeting with Florence Knoll at
the Cranbrook Academy of Art. According to history, she told him that she
wanted a chair that she could ju
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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 furniture indust
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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 (a renowned Britis
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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 for
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Designer of the week: Marcel Breuer
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 14th 2019
Hungarian-American designer Marcel Breuer was the first
craftsman to ever work with tubular steel in conjunction with textiles. He gave
the world a chair concept that could not be remade, effectivel
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