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Zeev Aram talks to Crane TV
After emigrating from Israel in 1957 and working briefly under architect Ernö Goldfinger, Zeev Aram OBE founded his eponymous design ...
Poul Kjaerholm - Cabinetmaker to Modernist Icon - Part Six
As the 50’s became the 60’s, Kjærholm began work on designing another table and chair set and in the latter part of 1960, the PK 9 ...
Poul Kjaerholm - Cabinetmaker to Modernist Icon - Part Five
Before we carry on into 1957, I would just like to take a side-step to show, for those not aware, the reasoning behind Kjaerholm’s use of ...
Gray Matters
Marco Orsini's documentary Gray Matters will receive its world premiere at the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York on 15th ...
Poul Kjaerholm - Cabinetmaker to Modernist Icon - Part Four
The PK 22 was clearly a continuation of his PK 25 design but also a refinement on that idea by using less structural material. Two lengths ...
Poul Kjaerholm - Cabinetmaker to Modernist Icon - Part Three
This industrial way of thinking about furniture was not new, of course, and had Kjærholm constantly referring back to the work of Dutch ...
The Aluminium Group Dining Chair
The Aluminium Chair is one of the greatest furniture designs of the twentieth century. Charles and Ray Eames originally designed it in 1958 ...
The Spanish Chair - 1959 - Brge Mogensen
Børge Mogensen, who would have turned 100 years old this year, is rightly remembered as one of the titans behind the mid-century ‘Danish ...
Poul Kjaerholm - Cabinetmaker to Modernist Icon - Part Two
Whilst working at the Fritz Hansen factory, Kjærholm was given a chance to experiment with industrial materials and also to begin ...
Eero Saarinen - Conference Chair 1950
In collaboration with Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen won the Museum of Modern Art's 'Organic Design' competition in 1941 with their ...