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I have to say Alexander Girard is one of my top 5 designers, I love his fabrics and have redone so many chairs in my house with his wonderful fabrics. it looks like a tribute to Girard but talk about fun to do,I think Miller stripe, is the greatest fabric made as far as I am concerned the colors are incredible , toots stripe great that he used for the LaFonda restaurant in NYC in
61, as well as Jacobs coat, His checks in all colors,lack and white and red and blue, and bow tie, as well as quaretfoil. I use that in my kitchen, The man was a genius . andhis fabrics 45 years later still look like they were made yesterday, What he did for Herman Miller and Braniff was un real
add him to the team of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and you have my top 3 Add Verner Panton and Arni Jacobsen that is my top 5 but I cannot for get Mies Vander Rhoe , and Florance Knoll their style is timeless, since i have been collecting for 15 years it is hard for me to say i am tired of that one, or this one, as every time i look at their designs in my furniture in my house I love them more,
I am the one who is truly blessed and lucky to be able to afford these incredible designers, and to be able to live with them every day .
Charles Gwathmey would be my...
Charles Gwathmey would be my favorite Modern Architect. He did a house of a friend on the PCH in LA that is beyond cool. Three foot square granite pavers that start out at the street and proceed all the way through the first floor of the house, an entryway courtyard, in a perfectly ordered grid out through the back of the house and to the edge of the sand right on the pacific. Soaring spaces all in white, stunning! If they have to be dead, then Louis Khan. Clearly I'm an architecture "nut", object/furniture/etc designers, too many to name.
If the question was...
who is your favorite furniture designer I would agree with Hans Wegner or Poul Kjaerholm...but you asked designer and that implies to me that you are looking for someone more versitile, in which case I am leaning toward Achille Castiglioni. But I prefer living over dead designers so my vote is split between the "ratonal" Konstantin Grcic and the more "humane" Erik Magnussen.
I asked him...
For a while I asked myself the same question. Some years ago Achille Castiglioni visited our design office and I got the opportunity to ask. He looked around the office and finally found a broom stick. He pushed it through the hole and with a smiling face said: "Koen, you should have figured out this yourself because the hole is right through the center of gravity, so...this is the way you transport it!!"...should I have answered: "naturalmente ho saputo!"...well I did not, we booth had this big smile for recognizing hidden qualities in a well designed product.
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