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Item No.:BJ-9960A
Charles Eames 1907-1978
Architect and designer, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied and practised architecture and taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art (1937-40). There he collaborated on modern furniture design with the Saarinens and student Ray Kaiser (c.1916-88), whom he married in 1941. Initially a painter and sculptor, his wife formed an innovative design partnership with her husband (1941-78) that produced moulded plywood chairs, modular storage units, knock-down furniture, graphics, interiors, exhibit displays, and experimental films. They moved to California (1941) and set up a workshop designing military leg splints, film sets for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and in 1947 their own landmark home in Santa Monica constructed of prefabricated parts. The moulded plywood, leather-upholstered, pedestal-mounted Eames Lounge Chair 670 (1956) with ottoman was their most enduring creation.
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Item No.:BJ-1150
Marcel Breuer 1902-1981
Architect and designer, born in Pécs, S Hungary. A student at the Bauhaus in Germany from 1920, he took charge of the furniture workshop by 1924, and designed probably the first modern tubular steel chair. In 1937 he joined Walter Gropius in the USA as associate professor of architecture at Harvard (1937-46) and in architectural practice. Working independently after 1947, he designed the majority of his architectural projects, including the UNESCO building in Paris (with Bernard Zehrfuss and Pier Luigi Nervi). A significant figure in the xModern Movementx, his classic furniture designs, in particular, represented major developments in materials and techniques. Marcel Breuer died in New York on 2nd June 1981. |
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Item No.:BJ-6033
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886 - 1969
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. He worked in the family stone-carving business before he joined the office of Bruno Paul in Berlin. He entered the studio of Peter Behrens in 1908 and remained until 1912. Under Behrens' influence, Mies developed a design approach based on advanced structural techniques and Prussian Classicism. He also developed sympathy for the aesthetic credos of both Russian Constructivism and the Dutch De Stijl group. He borrowed from the post and lintel construction of Karl Friedrich Schinkel for his designs in steel and glass. Mies worked with the magazine G which started in July 1923. He made major contributions to the architectural philosophies of the late 1920s and 1930s as artistic director of the Werkbund-sponsored Weissenhof project and as Director of the Bauhaus. Famous for his dictum 'Less is More', Mies attempted to create contemplative, neutral spaces through an architecture based on material honesty and structural integrity. Over the last twenty years of his life, Mies achieved his vision of a monumental 'skin and bone' architecture. His later works provide a fitting denouement to a life dedicated to the idea of a universal, simplified architecture Mies died in Chicago, Illinois in 1969
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Item No.:BJ-6168
Bauhaus, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, has been the most important German intellectual movement, with the aim of connecting all spheres of art in an ideal synthesis. By means of new teaching methods, the intention was to liberate the artist from his academic specialization so as once again to be able to focus on his craftsman skills. Despite its short duration, the Bauhaus masters' creative and productive period prior to their expulsion by the Nazis in 1933 nevertheless left a mark on the history of art, which remains relevant to this day. This particularly applies to Bauhaus furniture, which ideally reflects the demands of aesthetics and functionality.
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Item No.:BJ-6181
Hoffmann, Josef (Franz Maria) Austrian architect, designer and draughtsman
(b Pirnitz, Moravia [now Brtnice, Czech Republic], 15 Dec 1870; d Vienna, 15 May 1956). Josef Hoffman was born in Pirnitz, Moravia (now Chechoslovakia) in 1870. He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Carl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, whose theories of a functional, modern architecture profoundly effected his architectural works. He won the Rome prize in 1895 and the following year joined the Wagner's office. Hoffman established his own office in 1898 and taught at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule from 1899 until 1936. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, a group of revolutionary artists and architects. He actively supported the group by designing its exhibitions and writing for the magazine Ver Sacrum. In 1903 he helped found the Wiener Werkstate. Although Hoffman's earliest works belong to a Secessionist tangent of the Art Nouveau, his later works introduced a vocabulary of regular grids and squares. The functional clarity and abstract purity of his later works mark him as an important precursor of the Modern Movement. A highly individualistic architect and designer, Hoffman's work combined the simplicity of craft production with a refined aesthetic ornament. He died in Vienna in 1956.
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Item No.:BJ-6180
Eileen Gray 1879 - 1976
Born in Ireland and from an affluent and artistic family background, Eileen Gray studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1898). In 1902, she moved to France and studied drawing at the Académies Colarossi and Julian, Paris. Later, she trained in the art of lacquer with the Japanese craftsman, Sougawara. She spent much of World War I in London and only returned to Paris in 1918. Prior to, she had worked solely as a furniture designer; however, in that year she began to work on interior design. In 1922, she opened the Galerie Jean Désert as a showcase for her own work. The same year she also came into contact with the De Stijl movement. From 1926 onwards, she worked as an architect and exhibited several architectural projects in Le Corbusier's Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux at the 1937 Paris Exhibition.
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Item No.: BJ-6165
Material:Leather
Specification:3Seater+Queen Chair
Payment:FOB Shenzhen T/T 30%-70%
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