Furniture Design By Great Masters

Furniture Design By Great Masters

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ADOLF LOSS

• Loos Worked on the simple principles. Sraight lines, clean curves.
• Along with his theory, his conception of the raumplan or plan of volumes , gradually evolved.
• As a interior designer he believed that as much as possible should be built in. If not possible or desirable then the furniture had to be of top craftsmanship, but not fancy. Quality material and workmanship were, for loos, the ultimate expression of aesthetic excellence.
• He believed -“ To seek beauty only in form and not in ornament is the foal to which all humanity is striving”
• A curvaceous chaise lounge used in interiors
• Dimensions in centimeters: chaise lounge W 70 / D 120 / H front roll 39, back roll 79; ottoman 50 x 50, H 39•

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ALVAR ALTO

• Finland’s first Modernists.
• His unique architectural style is characterized by asymmetry, curved lines, and contrasting natural materials.
• His early works were flavored with a "heroic functionalism" that was based around the idea that a structure's use should determine its form.
• His philosophy -: "There are only two things in art -- humanity or its lack. The mere form, some detail in itself, does not create humanity. We have today enough of superficial and rather bad architecture which is modern."
• Aalto also created glassware, jewelry, furniture, interiors, and paintings. In 1932, he designed a new kind of laminated plywood furniture and won a number of design awards for his work on household and industrial items.

CARLO BUGATTI

Carlo Bugatti's furniture combines the picturesque asymmetry of Art Nouveau with the exoticism of Moorish and Japanese influences. However, it is pure fantasy, drawing inspiration from the Orientalist art movement of the latenineteenth century

• His designs are wild, exciting, innovative, and sometimes simply just too much. The forms are asymmetrical, curvilinear, and ovoid, while the surfaces are stenciled, inlaid, bronzed, and tassled -- usually all at once.
• Chairs, tables, and silverware often boast abstract insect forms as adornment. His works teeter between the imaginatively tasteful and the gaudy; not surprisingly, the designer gained reknown for his extravagance and eccentricity. Walnut, copper, pewter, vellum; H. 29 1/2 in. (74.9 cm), W. 23 5/8 in. (60 cm), D. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm)

The writing surface of this desk is covered in vellum, held in place with punched copper strapping; the walnut legs are inlaid with pewter imitating calligraphic brush painting. The unusual profile of the desk suggests the jaws and teeth of an alligato.

A late 19th - early 20th Century Folding Chair by Carlo Bugatti, Carved & parcel ebonized walnut-wood with pewter inlay, 46" X 12.5" X 33.5". The high-back with hollowed carving of the Ace of Clubs (Clove leaf), the back, the seat and the front leg are inlaid with pewter in floral and geometrical motif.