In america herman miller became synonymous with modern furniture and worked with the likes of george nelson and charles and ray eames.
American mid century modern furniture designers.
But what we now call mid century modern design is a blend of decades worth of design.
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Florence knoll is maybe the most famous name of all american mid century furniture designers.
Milo baughman was a midcentury modern furniture designer known for his avant garde distinct and unassuming designs.
Was an american reflection of the international and bauhaus movements including the works of gropius florence knoll le corbusier and ludwig mies van der rohe.
During his time as director of design at herman miller he recruited some of the most iconic mid century modern designers including charles and ray eames and isamu noguchi.
Below are some of the best known designers of this period.
This danish visionary drew inspiration from the modernist designs of charles and ray eames and collaborated with other designers to create furnishings for a number of the buildings he designed.
The mid century modern movement in the u s.
This is by no means an exhaustive list.
Another renowned midcentury modern furniture designer with roots in architecture is arne jacobsen 1902 1971.
Despite its emergence in the late 1940s mid century modern furniture remains to this day timeless and incredibly chic.
His focus was to take classic furniture designs and simplify them with a slight modern twist.
Wormley was a modernist furniture designer hired by the american furniture manufacturer dunbar.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid century modern furniture designs.
Husband and wife charles and ray eames were the embodiment of the inventiveness energy and optimism at the heart of mid century modern american design.
Furniture designers filmmakers artists textile and graphic designers and even toy and puzzle makers the eameses believed that design should be an agent of positive change.
Charles and ray eames and eero saarinen who had experimented extensively with molded plywood eagerly embraced fiberglass for respectively pieces such as the la chaise and the womb chair.
As mid century modern furniture design was a truly global design movement it comes as no surprise that many creators from the other side of the atlantic also contributed to the exquisite style that was developed in the mid 20 th century.