20th Century

Ole Wanscher studied at the Danish School of Art and Design, and was particularly influenced by Prof. Kaare Klint. After completing...

In 1931, aged 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) resigned from a comfortable position in the import-export trade in order to...

George Nakashima (1905-1990) was one of the preeminent studio furniture makers who emerged from the post-war period. He was born...

Ron Ferri is a master at making the ordinary extraordinary.  Both creatively and conceptually ahead of his time, his visual...

Father of the art furniture movement, Wendell Castle (1932-2018) was a sculptor, designer, and educator for more than four...

Ron Seff (1934-1990) was a quintessential Manhattanite, living almost his entire life in the city. Ron Seff opened his...

Paul Evans (1931-1987) was an iconic American furniture designer, sculptor, and artist who is famous for his contributions to...

Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Phillip Lloyd Powell (1919-2008) began crafting furniture during his adolescent years. Powell worked with Paul...

James Mont (1904-1978), a notorious mid-century designer and interior decorator, counted gangsters and movie stars among his clients. His...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Karl Springer (1931-1991) created custom designs with superb craftsmanship and extreme attention to detail....

Tommi Anton Parzinger (1903–1981) was a German furniture designer and painter. Parzinger moved to New York in 1932, starting...

Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905–1976) was a British-born architect and furniture designer. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he was...

Samuel Abraham Marx (1885-1964) was an American architect, designer and interior decorator. He is generally considered a modernist, influenced...

Heralded as one of the twentieth century’s most important designers, John Dickinson (1920-1982) created furnishings that delight the senses...

The father and son team of Philip (1907-1987) and Kelvin (1937-) LaVerne created custom, limited edition pieces of furniture...

Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016) was a prolific American furniture designer. He was inducted into the Interior Designer Hall of Fame...

Jack Rogers Hopkins (1920-2006) was part of a California-based design movement in the late 1960s that promoted the use...

Milo Ray Baughman, Jr. (1923-2003) was one of the leading modern furniture designers of the twentieth century. His uniquely...

The number-one box office star of 1930, William “Billy” Haines (1900 – 1973) went on to become one of...

Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953) was one of the most prominent grand-dame decorators of the first half of the twentieth...

André Groult (1884–1966) was one of the most important and influential French designers of the Art Deco period. Much...

Pedro Friedeberg is a Mexican artist and designer known for his surrealist work filled with lines colors and ancient...