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Heller, Inc.
Heller is an American company founded in 1971 that makes and sells indoor/outdoor furniture and accessories. It is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut, United States. Its founder, Alan Heller, invited well-known architects and designers including Mario Bellini, Frank Gehry, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli to create products for the company. Examples of its furniture and houseware are exhibited in museums including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Vitra Design Museum. Its stackable Hellerware won the Italian design award, the Compasso d'Oro. History The company was founded in 1971 by Alan Heller. Heller's first line of products was a set of stackable dinnerware known as "Hellerware" designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli. This design was originally manufactured in Italy and was awarded the 1964 Compasso d'Oro. Heller brought the design to America after the Italian manufacturer ceased production, and revived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio 65
Studio 65 (''Studiosessanta5'') is an Italian architecture studio. It was founded in 1965 in Turin as an avant-garde experimental collective of architects, designers, poets and artists. Its founders were Franco Audrito, Roberta Garosci, Enzo Bertone, Paolo Morello, and Paolo Rondelli. Studio 65 played an essential role in the Radical period (design), Radical movement in Italian design in the 1960-70s. Some of the most famous products they designed are the ''Bocca'' sofa and ''Capitello'' chair''.'' Other notable projects include the ''Leonardo'' sofa, which became one of the icons of the Radical Design movement, the interior design of the Casa Canella apartment, the Palladian Villa, as well as the Barbarella nightclub. Other members of the Radical design movement from Turin were Bean bag chair, Piero Gatti-Cesare Paolini-Franco Teodoro, LIBIDARCH, Ceretti-Derossi-Rosso, Guido Drocco, Franco Mello, and Piero Gilardi. Towards the end of the seventies, the collective broke up, and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |