Interior design history - 5 masters you need to know

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Design is a fruit of the 20th century, like electricity and mass media. But who are the fathers of this discipline that revolutionised our daily lives, transforming anonymous everyday objects into works of genius that are pleasant to see and use? In this first article, let us look together at the five masters who marked the first part of the 20th century with their visions.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (1987-1965)

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Professionally active from 1914 until the day of his death in 1965. For many he is simply the founder of modern architecture. A pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete in architecture, he was also one of the fathers of contemporary town planning. Founding member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderneknown for his idea of fusing architecture and sociology, creating works that serve people as part of a community. In 2016, seventeen of his buildings were added to the list of sites world heritage site of UNESCO. In furniture design his experiments began in 1928, working together with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. His most famous work is the 'Grand Confort' from 1928: sofa, armchair and chaise longue that are rightly great design classics. A true manifesto of industrial aesthetics, with that marked independence between the metal frame and cushions that anticipates the criteria of mass production. The collection has been reproduced exclusively by Cassina since 1965.

Charles e Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames (1907-1978 / 1912-1988)

A formidable creative team of husband and wife. Active from the 1940s through to the 1970s, they were pioneers of organic design, distinguished by soft, rounded lines, as opposed to rationalist design with a clear pro-industrial aesthetic. For almost thirty years, they spread their ingenious creativity far and wide, in a variety of sectors, from photography to painting, graphic arts to cinematography. Their most famous piece is the one with which they won the 'Organic Design in Home Furnishing' competition organised by MOMA. Together with their Finnish friend Eero Saarinen, they simply reinvented the idea of a chair, presenting a design for a seat modelled on the shape of the human body. The organic chair is still to this day a piece of exquisite design, which impresses at first glance and touch. Other famous works by the effervescent creative duo are the Eames Lounge and the moulded fibreglass chairs.

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)

American naturalised Finnish architect and designer, active from 1940 to 1961. As an architect his best known projects are the Kresge Auditorium at MIT and the Yale Hockey Rink in New Haven, the St Louis Arch and the TWA terminal at New York's JFK International Airport (completed posthumously in 1962). As a designer his most successful and famous projects are the Womb series and the Pedestal series (in which there is also the famous Tulip chair) both designed for Knoll in the early 1950s.

Jean Prové

Jean Prouvé (1901-1984)

French architect and designer self-taughtHe studied as a young man with a master blacksmith and it is no coincidence that he always preferred steel and metals for his work. Although he always rejected the use of steel tubing at the Bauhaus because he preferred the use of bent, pressed and welded sheets box section. Professionally active from 1923 to 1984, he fought with the resistance during the German occupation. His main artistic achievement was to have succeeded in transferring the technique of industrial production into design, without losing aesthetic quality. His designs are still in great demand at contemporary art auctions.

Paul Mccobb

Paul McCobb (1917-1969)

An American from Massachusetts, McCobb was also self-taught, the son of a salesman who worked in a large furniture shop. As a boy he studied at a art school. During the Second World War, he worked as an engineer in the Camouflage Corps dealing with large camouflage systems. Also enrolled in the American modernist schoolHe was active from 1945 until the year of his departure in 1969. Its Planner Group line was among the best-selling of the first half of the 20th century. Launched by Winchendon Furniture Company, it was in production for 14 years.

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