This is a list of notable people whose primary occupation is

furniture design Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating ( tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Furniture is also used to hold objects ...

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Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...

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Eero Aarnio Eero Aarnio (born 21 July 1932) is a Finnish designer, noted for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, such as his plastic and fibreglass chairs. He was born in Helsinki. Aarnio studied architecture at the Institute of Industrial Art ...

(born 1932) *

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (architect), William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and train ...

(1728–1792) * Thomas Affleck (1745–1795) *

Franco Albini Franco Albini (17 October 1905 – 1 November 1977) was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design. Education and career A native of Robbiate, near Milan, Albini obtained his degree in architecture at Po ...

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Davis Allen Davis Allen (July 13, 1916 – May 13, 1999) was an American architect, interior, and furniture designer. He was noted as a pioneer in the design of interior corporate environments and had a forty-year tenure at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Lif ...

(1916–1999) * Gordon Andrews (1914–2001) * Ron Arad (born 1951) *

Ini Archibong Inimfon "Ini" Joshua Archibong (born 23 June 1983) is an American-born Nigerian artist and designer. His work reflects an interest in Master craftsman, master-craftsmanship and its relationship to technology, as well as mathematics, philosophy, a ...

(born 1983) *

David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (born 3 November 1961), styled as Viscount Linley until 2017 and known professionally as David Linley, is a member of the extended British royal family, an English furniture maker, and h ...

(born 1961) *

Gae Aulenti Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti (; 4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer. Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy. Alth ...

(1927–2012) * Jean Avisse (1723–1796)

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Bae Se-hwa Bae Se-hwa (; born 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean artist. He is famous for working with steam bent walnut wood to create fluid and elegant curves in his artwork. Bae's inspiration comes from traditional Korean's interpretation of be ...

(born 1980) * Fred Baier (born 1949) * Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby (born 1969) *

Milo Baughman Milo Ray Baughman, Jr. (October 7, 1923 – July 23, 2003) born in Goodland, Kansas, was a modern furniture designer. Baughman designed for a number of furniture companies starting in the mid-1940s until his death, including Mode Furniture, Glen ...

(1923–2003) *

Mario Bellini Mario Bellini (born 1 February 1935) is an Italian architect and designer. After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1959, he pursued a career in architecture, exhibition design, product design, and furniture design during the ...

(born 1935) *

Harry Bertoia Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 – November 6, 1978) was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture furniture designer, designer. Bertoia was born in San Lorenzo di Arzene, San Lorenzo d'Arzene, Province of Porden ...

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Lina Bo Bardi Lina Bo Bardi, born Achillina Bo (5 December 1914 – 20 March 1992), was an Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect. A prolific architect and designer, she devoted her working life, most of it spent in Brazil, to promoting the social and cult ...

(1914–1992) *

Cini Boeri Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno (19 June 1924 – 9 September 2020), known as Cini Boeri, was an Italian architect and designer. She was considered "one of the great pioneering women in Italian design and architecture", who was described as a "form ...

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André Charles Boulle André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal ...

(1642–1732) * Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976) *

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Was ...

(1902–1981) * Jeremy Broun (born 2000) * Stephen Burks (born 1969) *

Busk + Hertzog Busk may refer to: *Busk (corsetry), the rigid element of a corset placed at the center front *Busking, or street performance Places * Busk, Cumbria, a hamlet in Cumbria, England * Busk, Greater Manchester, a locality in Greater Manchester, Engl ...

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* Louise Campbell (born 1970) *

David Caon David Caon (born 1977) is an Australian industrial designer and creative director. He is active in the fields of furniture, product, interior, and transportation design. Early life and education David Caon was born in Adelaide, Australia to a f ...

(born 1977) *

Achille Castiglioni Achille Castiglioni (; 16 February 1918 – 2 December 2002) was an Italian architect and designer of furniture, lighting, radiogram (device), radiograms and other objects. As a professor of design, he advised his students "If you are not cu ...

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Livio Castiglioni Livio Castiglioni (16 January 1911 – 30 April 1979) was an Italian architect and designer. He made a significant contribution to twentieth-century Italian lighting design and was an early proponent of the practice of industrial design in Ital ...

(1911–1971) *

Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (22 April 1913 – 27 November 1968) was an Italian architect and designer. Early life and education Pier Giacomo Castiglioni was born on 22 April 1913 in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was the second s ...

(1913–1968) * Wendell Castle (1932–2018) * Don Chadwick (born 1936) * William Chambers (1723–1796) * Eliphalet Chapin (1741–1807) *

Thomas Chippendale Thomas Chippendale (June 1718 – 1779) was an English woodworker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs in a trade catalogue titled ''The Gen ...

(1718–1779) * Thomas Chippendale, the younger (1749–1822) *

Antonio Citterio Antonio Citterio (born 1950, in Meda, Italy) is an Italian architect, furniture designer and industrial designer who lives and works in Milan. He designed the A2A Tower in Milan. Biography He received a degree in architecture from Politecnico ...

(born 1950) * John Cobb (1715–1778) *

Kenneth Cobonpue Kenneth Cobonpue (born December 16, 1968) is a Filipino industrial designer known for his unique designs integrating natural materials through innovative handmade production processes. He began his design career after his studies in Industrial D ...

(born 1968) * Muriel Coleman (1917–2003) *

Mac Collins Michael Allen "Mac" Collins (October 15, 1944 – November 20, 2018) was an American businessman and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing (previously from 1993 t ...

(born 1995) * Joe Cesare Colombo (1930–1971) *

Henry Copland Henry Copeland, aka Henry Copland, (c. 1710 – 1754) was an 18th-century English cabinetmaker and furniture designer. In partnership with Mathias Locke during the mid-18th century in London, they produced many furniture designs in the Rococo ...

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Charles Cressent Charles Cressent (1685–1768) was a French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style. As the second son of François Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also ...

(1685–1768)

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Mario Dal Fabbro Mario Dal Fabbro (October 6, 1913 – June 20, 1990) was an Italian American Modernism, modernist sculptor, furniture designer, and author of illustrated how-to books on furniture design and construction. Early life and education Dal Fabbro wa ...

(1913–1990) * Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi (1767–1855) *

Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient (September 6, 1928 – June 8, 2013) was an American industrial designer. Diffrient focused mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale. Biography ...

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Nanna Ditzel Nanna Ditzel (October 6, 1923 - June 17, 2005) was a Denmark, Danish designer. She was educated as a carpenter at Richards Skole and studied at the Danmarks Designskole#History, Danish School of Arts and Crafts where she graduated in 1946. Her ...

(1923–2005) * Tom Dixon (born 1959) *

A. M. Dinesen A is the first letter of the Latin and English alphabet. A may also refer to: Science and technology Quantities and units * ''a'', a measure for the attraction between particles in the Van der Waals equation * ''A'' value, a measure of s ...

(1930–2017)

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Ray Ray or RAY may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), the bony or horny spine on ray-finned fish Science and mathematics * Half-line (geometry) or ray, half of a line split at an ...

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Charles Eames Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architect ...

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Charles Eastlake Charles Locke Eastlake (11 March 1836 – 20 November 1906) was a British architect and furniture designer. His uncle, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA (born in 1793), was a Keeper of the National Gallery, from 1843 to 1847, and from 1855 its fi ...

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Thomas Elfe Thomas Elfe (1719 - November 28, 1775) was an English interior designer and ''ébéniste'' (cabinetmaker). Born and trained in London, he immigrated to America in the 1740s, settling permanently in Charleston, South Carolina. The socio-economi ...

(1719–1775) * Olav Eldøy (born 1948) * Paul Evans (1931–1987)

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Grant Featherston Grant Stanley Featherston (17 October 1922 – 9 October 1995) was an Australian furniture designer whose chair designs in the 1950s became icons of the Atomic Age. He was born in Geelong, Victoria. In 1965 he married Mary Bronwyn Currey, an E ...

(1922–1995) *

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1762–1853) * Paul T. Frankl (1887–1958) *

Naoto Fukasawa Naoto Fukasawa (; born 1956) is a Japanese designer, author, and educator, working in the fields of Product design, product and furniture design. He is known for his product design work with the Japanese retail company Muji, as well as collaborat ...

(born 1956) * Frans Schrofer (born 1956)

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* Peter Ghyczy (1940–2022) *

Grinling Gibbons Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London church ...

(1648–1721) *

Ernest Gimson Ernest William Gimson (; 21 December 1864 – 12 August 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputat ...

(1864–1919) *

Eileen Gray Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 187831 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern architecture, Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, s ...

(1878–1976) *

Molly Gregory Mary "Molly" Gregory (1914-2006) was an American furniture maker and teacher. She is known for teaching at Black Mountain College and for the furniture she created. Biography Gregory was born in 1914 in Framingham, Massachusetts. She grew up i ...

(1914–2006) *

Hector Guimard Hector Guimard (, 10 March 1867 – 20 May 1942) was a French architect and designer, and a prominent figure of the Art Nouveau style. He achieved early fame with his design for the Castel Beranger, the first Art Nouveau apartment building i ...

(1867–1942)

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Christopher Guy Harrison Christopher Guy Harrison (3 September 1960 – 19 August 2020) was a British luxury furniture designer. He was the founder and head designer of the international furnishings brand. Originally known for a wide range of decorative mirrors, the Chr ...

(1960–2020) * Ambrose Heal (1872–1959) *

George Hepplewhite George Hepplewhite (1727? – 21 June 1786) was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale. There are no pieces of furnit ...

(c. 1727–1786) * René Herbst (1891–1982) * James Hilton (born 1973) * Matthew Hilton (born 1957) *

Jacques Hitier Jacques Hitier (28 March 1917 – 5 March 1999) was a French interior architect and designer. He was director of the École Boulle, a college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts in Paris, from 1972 to 1982. After the Second War World, he sp ...

(1917–1999) *

Josef Hoffman Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian- Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet Pa ...

(1870–1956) * Thomas Hope (1769–1831) * Luke Hughes (born 1957) *

Richard Hutten Richard G. J. Hutten (born 30 March 1967, in Zwollerkerspel) is a Dutch industrial designer, art director, and artist who is active in furniture design, product design, interior design, and exhibition design. Biography Hutten graduating from ...

(born 1967)

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* Yinka Ilori (born 1987) * James Irvine (1958–2013)

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Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Hon. FAIA (; 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to functionalism (architec ...

(1902–1971) * Dakota Jackson (born 1949) * Charles Hollis Jones (born 1945) *

Hella Jongerius Hella Jongerius (born 30 May 1963 in De Meern, Utrecht) is a Dutch industrial designer. Biography Jongerius was born in De Meern, a village to the west of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1963. From 1988 to 1993, she studied design at the Design ...

(born 1963) *

Finn Juhl Finn Juhl (30 January 1912 – 17 May 1989) was a Denmark, Danish architect, interior design, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of Danish design in the 1940s an ...

(1912–1989)

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* Vladimir Kagan (1927–2016) * Frederik Kayser (1924–1968) *

William Kent William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, b ...

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Poul Kjærholm Poul Kjærholm (1929–1980) was a Danish designer. Born in Østervrå, Denmark, Kjærholm began his career as a cabinetmaker's apprentice with Gronbech in 1948, attending the Danish School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen in 1952. In 19 ...

(1929–1980) *

Florence Knoll Florence Marguerite Knoll Bassett ( Schust; May 24, 1917 – January 25, 2019) was an American architect, interior designer, furniture designer, and entrepreneur who has been credited with revolutionizing office design and bringing modernist de ...

(1917–2019) * Silas Kopf (born 1949) *

Susan Kozma-Orlay Susan Kozma-Orlay (born Zsuzsa Kozma; 1913–2008) was a Hungarian-Australian mid-century modernist designer. Biography Zsuzsa Kozma was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Her father was the architect and critic . She attended the Kunstgewerbes ...

(1913–2008) * James Krenov (1920–2009) *

Shiro Kuramata Shiro Kuramata (, 29 November 1934 – 1 February 1991) is one of Japan's most important designers of the 20th century. Biography Kuramata was born in 1934. He was part of a generation of Japanese creatives born just before the outbreak of ...

(1934–1991)

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* Max Lamb (born 1980) *

Charles-Honoré Lannuier Charles-Honoré Lannuier, French cabinetmaker (1779–1819), lived and worked in New York City. In Lannuier's time, the style of his furniture was described as "French Antique." Today, his work is classified primarily as Federal furniture, Neocla ...

(1779–1819) *

Paul László Paul László or Paul Laszlo (6 February 1900 – 27 March 1993) was a Hungarian-born architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries. László built his reputation while designing interiors for houses, but in ...

(1900–1993) *

Charles Limbert Charles P. Limbert (1854–1923) was an American furniture designer. He is considered one of the most successful furniture leaders in the history of Grand Rapids and the Arts and Crafts movement in America. The furniture that bears his name is hi ...

(1854–1923) *

François Linke François Linke (1855–1946) was a leading Parisian ''ébéniste'' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small Bohemian village of Deutsch Pankraz, now known as Jítrava in the Czech Republ ...

(1855–1946) * David Linley (born 1961) *

Piero Lissoni Piero Lissoni (born July 23, 1956, in Seregno) is an Italian architect, art director and designer. For over thirty years, he has developed projects the world over in the fields of architecture, landscape and interior, as well as in product and g ...

(born 1956) *

Mathias Lock Matthias Lock was an English 18th century furniture designer and cabinet-maker. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; but he was a disciple of Thomas Chippendale, and subsequently of the Adams, and was possibly in partnership with Henry ...

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Samuel Loomis Dr. Samuel J. Loomis is a fictional character in the ''Halloween'' franchise. A main protagonist of the overall series, Loomis appears on-screen in eight of the thirteen ''Halloween'' films (and is mentioned or featured in photographs and audio ...

(1748–1814) *

Ross Lovegrove Ross Lovegrove (born 1958 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh artist and industrial designer. Biography Ross Lovegrove was born in Wales in 1958. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), graduating with a Fi ...

(born 1958) *

Wendell Lovett Wendell Harper Lovett (April 2, 1922 - September 18, 2016) was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Lovett entered the University of Washington program in architecture in 1940, but his college years ...

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Fred Lowen Fred Lowen AM (1919–2005), born Fritz Karl Heinz Lowenstein, was a German-Australian designer and an inductee into the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame. Biography Lowen was born as Fritz Karl Heinz Loewenstein in 1919 in Upper Sil ...

(1919–2005)

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* Sal Maccarone (born 1949) *

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macd ...

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Vico Magistretti Vico Magistretti (October 6, 1920 – September 19, 2006) was an Italian architect who was also active as an industrial designer, furniture designer, and academic. As a collaborator of humanist architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, one of Magistretti ...

(1920–2006) * Terence Main (born 1954) *

John Makepeace John Makepeace OBE FCSD (born John Makepeace Smith; 6 July 1939) is a British furniture designer and maker. Makepeace was born in Solihull, Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial cou ...

(born 1939) *

Sam Maloof Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009)
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Cecilie Manz Cecilie Manz (born 1972) is a Danish industrial designer. In November 2017, Manz was awarded designer of the year in the Design Awards by Bo bedre, Costume Living, Nordic Living and Boligmagasiet. In September 2014, she won the Danish Crown Prin ...

(born 1972) *

Sabine Marcelis Sabine Marcelis (born 1985) is a Dutch artist and designer. Typically focused on themes of transparency, reflection, opacity and translucency, often using pastel colours, minimalist shapes, smooth surfaces, and materials such as resin, glass, a ...

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Enzo Mari Enzo Mari (27 April 1932 – 19 October 2020) was an Italians, Italian modernist artist and furniture designer who is known to have influenced many generations of industrial designers. Early life and education Mari was born in Novara, Ita ...

(1932–2020) *

Daniel Marot Daniel Marot or Daniel Marot the Elder (1661–1752) was a French-born Dutch architect, furniture designer and engraver at the forefront of the classicizing Late Baroque Louis XIV style. He worked for a long time in England and the Dutch Republ ...

(1661–1752) *

Wendy Maruyama Wendy Maruyama (born ) is an American visual artist, furniture maker, and educator from California. She was born in La Junta, Colorado. Maruyama was influential in the early period of post-modern artistic furniture. She challenges the masculine ...

(born 1952) * Bruno Mathson (1907–1988) * Judy Kensley McKie (born 1944) *

Alessandro Mendini Alessandro Mendini (16 August 1931 – 18 February 2019) was an Italians, Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern architecture, Postmodern, and Radical period, Radical design. He a ...

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Børge Mogensen Børge Mogensen (13 April 1914 – 5 October 1972), was a Danish furniture designer. He was one of the most important among a generation of furniture designers who made the concept of “Danish Modern” known throughout the world. Together wit ...

(1914–1972) * Thomas C. Molesworth (1890–1977) *

Carlo Mollino Carlo Mollino (6 May 1905 – 27 August 1973) was an Italian architect, designer, photographer and Teacher, educator. Biography Carlo Mollino was born on 6 May 1905, in Turin, a major industrial city and cultural centre in northwest Italy. He ...

(1905–1973) *

Jasper Morrison Jasper Morrison (born 1959) is an English product and furniture designer. He is known for the refinement and apparent simplicity of his designs. In a rare interview with the designer, he is quoted as saying: "Objects should never shout." ...

(born 1959) * Olivier Mourgue (born 1939)

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George Nakashima George Katsutoshi Nakashima ( ''Nakashima Katsutoshi'', May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker and architect. In 1983, he accepted the Order of the Sacred Treasure, an honor bestowed by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese ...

(1905–1990) * George Nelson (1908–1986) *

Marc Newson Marc Andrew Newson (born 20 October 1963) is an Australian industrial designer, creative director, and artist who has worked in many industry sectors including furniture, product, and transportation design, luxury goods, fashion, and fine art ...

(born 1963) *

Marcus Nonnenmacher Marcus Nonnenmacher (1653–1720) was a cabinet-maker for the Prague royal court. He was born in Constance, the son of a German cabinet-maker he became in 1677 citizen of Prague, where he married into the family of the court cabinet-maker Abr ...

(1653–1720) * Nolen Niu (born 1975) *

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist, furniture designer and Landscape architecture, landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Grah ...

(1904–1988) * Arne Norell (1917–1971) * Wallace Nutting (1861–1941)

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* Jean Francis Oeben (1721–1763) * Jay Sae Jung Oh (born 1982) *

Jonathan Olivares Jonathan Olivares (born 1981) is an American industrial designer and author. Olivares's approach to design has been characterized research-based and incremental. In April 2022 he became Senior Vice-President of Design at the Knoll furniture compa ...

(born 1981) * Sergio Orozco (born 20th century)

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Augustus Charles Pugin Augustus Charles Pugin (born Auguste-Charles Pugin; 1762 – 19 December 1832) was a French-born British artist, draughtsman and writer. He was born in Paris to a Swiss father, and Pugin himself was to spend most of his life in England. Pugin ...

(1762–1832) *

Augustus Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival architecture ...

(1812–1852) *

Verner Panton Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, espec ...

(1926–1998) * Satyendra Pakhale (1967) * (1880–1948) * Kenneth Peacock (1922–2000) *

Charlotte Perriand Charlotte Perriand (; 24 October 1903 – 27 October 1999) was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society. In her article "L'Art de Vivre" ...

(1903–1999) *

Charles Percier Charles Percier (; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. Fo ...

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Alan Peters Alan George Peters OBE (17 January 1933 – 11 October 2009) was a British furniture designer maker and one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the ...

(1933–2009) *

Duncan Phyfe Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he beca ...

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Warren Platner Warren Platner (June 18, 1919 – April 17, 2006) was an American architect and interior designer. Platner produced a furniture collection that has proved to be a continuing icon of 1960s modernism. He is also famed with designing several promi ...

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Ferdinand Plitzner Ferdinand Plitzner (1678—1724) was a German cabinet maker, remembered for his elaborate furniture with Boulle marquetry, and the ''Spiegelkabinett'', a mirrored porcelain room that he created in 1719 at Schloss Weissenstein for Lothar Franz von ...

(1678–1724) *

Charles Pollock Charles Cecil Pollock (December 25, 1902 – May 8, 1988) was an American abstract painter and the eldest brother of artist Jackson Pollock. Biography Pollock was born on December 25, 1902, in Denver, Colorado. He was the eldest of five brothe ...

(1930–2013) *

Jean Prouvé Jean Prouvé (; 8 April 1901 – 23 March 1984) was a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. Le Corbusier designated Prouvé a constructeur, blending architecture and engineering. Prouvé's main achievement was transferring m ...

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Andrée Putman Andrée Putman (23 December 1925 – 19 January 2013) was a French interior and product designer. Life and work Childhood and youth (1925–1944) Andrée Christine Aynard was born into a wealthy family of bankers and notables from Lyon. H ...

(1925–2013)

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* Ernest Race (1913–1964) *

Dieter Rams Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932) is a German industrial designer who is most closely associated with the consumer products company Braun (company), Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalism (architecture), functionalist school of ...

(born 1932) *

Karim Rashid Karim Rashid (born 1960) is an Egyptian-born and Canadian-raised American industrial designer. His designs encompass a wide range of products, including luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity, and packaging. Accordi ...

(born 1960) *

Lilly Reich Lilly Reich (16 June 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a German designer specializing in textiles, furniture, interiors, and exhibition spaces. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for more than ten years during the Weimar pe ...

(1885–1947) *

Jean Henri Riesener Jean-Henri Riesener (; 4 July 1734 – 6 January 1806) was a famous German ''ébéniste'' (cabinetmaker), working in Paris, whose work exemplified the early neoclassical "Louis XVI style". Life and career Riesener was born in Gladbeck, Westpha ...

(1734–1806) *

Gerrit Rietveld Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Early life Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at n ...

(1888–1964) *

Jens Risom Jens Risom ( ; 8 May 1916 – 9 December 2016) was a Danish American List of furniture designers, furniture designer. An exemplar of Mid-Century modern design, Risom was one of the first designers to introduce Scandinavian design in the United St ...

(1916–2016) * T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905–1976) *

David Roentgen David Roentgen (1743 in HerrnhaagFebruary 12, 1807), was a German cabinetmaker of the eighteenth century, famed throughout Europe for his marquetry and his secret drawers and poes and mechanical fittings. His work embraces the late Rococo an ...

(1743–1807) * Samuel Ross (born 1991) *

André Jacob Roubo André Jacob Roubo (1739–1791) was a French carpenter, cabinetmaker and author. Roubo was born and died in Paris, and was the son and grandson of master cabinetmakers. Roubo wrote several highly influential books on woodworking, an achievemen ...

(1739–1791) *

Alexander Roux Alexander Roux (1813–1886) was a French-trained ''ébéniste'', or cabinetmaker, who emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He opened a shop in New York City in 1836. The business grew quickly: by the 1850s he employed 120 craftsmen in his ...

(1813–1886) * David Rowland (1924–2010) * Gordon Russell (1892–1980)

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Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center; the pa ...

(1910–1961) *

Kasper Salto Kasper Salto (born 14 February 1967) is a Danish industrial designer, most known for his furniture designs. He is the grandson of painter, ceramist and writer Axel Salto. Biography Kasper Salto was born on 14 February 1967 in Copenhagen ...

(born 1967) *

Richard Sapper Richard Sapper (30 May 1932 – 31 December 2015) was a German industrial designer who was based in Milan for much of his career. He is considered to be one of the most influential figures of post-war design. His products typically feature a comb ...

(1932–2015) *

Sergio Savarese Sergio Savarese (1958 in Naples, Italy – September 15, 2006, in Moffat County, Colorado, United States) was a furniture designer and a founder of Dialogica furniture stores. Savarese had studied to be a geologist. He went to Africa and spent se ...

(1958–2006) * Timothy Schreiber (born 20th century) * Frans Schrofer (born 1956) * George Seddon (1727–1801) *

Maarten van Severen Maarten Van Severen (5 June 1956, Antwerp, Belgium – 21 February 2005, Ghent, Belgium) was a Belgian furniture designer and interior architect. He came from an artistic family: his father was the abstract painter Dan Van Severen while his brothe ...

(1956–2005) * Thomas Shearer (18th century) *

Thomas Sheraton Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite. Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characte ...

(1751–1806) *

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (4 January 1899 – 25 September 1944), born Alma Buscher, was a German designer. She trained at the Reimann School in Berlin, the ''Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin'' and the Bauhaus. Life and work Alma B ...

(1899–1944) *

Bořek Šípek Bořek Šípek (14 June 1949 – 13 February 2016) was a Czech architect and designer. Biography Born in Prague, he was renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful, and rich style. He experimented with unexpected and often opulent shapes. ...

(1949–2016) * Janice Smith (born 20th century) * Rosanne Somerson (born 1954) *

Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass (; 14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and product designer. He was known for his designs of furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, homeware and office supplies. He also worked on numerous buildings an ...

(1917–2007) * Russell Spanner (1916–1974) *

Mart Stam Mart Stam (August 5, 1899 – February 21, 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century Euro ...

(1899–1986) *

Philippe Starck Philippe Starck (; born 18 January 1949) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles. His most popular pieces ...

(born 1949) *

Gustav Stickley Gustav Stickley (March 9, 1858 – April 15, 1942) was an American furniture manufacturer, design leader, publisher, and a leading voice in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Stickley's design philosophy was a major influence on American ...

(1858–1942) * Bill Stumpf (1936–2006) * Sympson (fl. 1660s)

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Michael Thonet Michael Thonet (2 July 1796 – 3 March 1871) was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture. Career Thonet was the son of the master tanner Franz Anton Thonet of Boppard. Following a carpenter's appren ...

(1796–1871) *

Matteo Thun Matteo Thun (full name Mathäus Antonius Maria Graf von Thun and Hohenstein, 17 June 1952 Bolzano, Italy) is an Italian architect and designer. Early life Mathäus Antonius Maria Graf von Thun und Hohenstein was born in Bolzano in 1952. He was t ...

(born 1952) * Frederick William Tod (1879–1958) *

Johannes Torpe Johannes Torpe (born 5 January 1973 in Skanderborg) is a Danish designer and musician. Since 1997, he has been the CEO and creative director of his eponymous design company, ''Johannes Torpe Studios'', based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The studio's ...

(born 1973) * David Trubridge (born 1951)

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Patricia Urquiola Patricia Urquiola Hidalgo (born 1961 in Oviedo) is a Spanish architect, industrial designer and art director. Biography Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo, Spain, and studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She lat ...

(born 1961)

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Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

(1863–1957) * William Vile (c. 1700–1767) *

Lella Vignelli Lella Vignelli (born Elena Valle; August 13, 1934 – December 22, 2016) was an Italian architect, designer, and businesswomen. She collaborated closely throughout much of her life with her husband Massimo Vignelli, with whom she founded Vignel ...

(1934–2016) *

Massimo Vignelli Massimo Vignelli (; January 10, 1931 – May 27, 2014) was an Italian designer who worked in several areas, including packaging, housewares, furniture, public signage, and showroom design. He worked within the modernist tradition, emphasizing sim ...

(1931–2014) *

Arne Vodder Arne Vodder (16 February 1926 – 27 December 2009) was a Danish furniture designer, a close friend and partner of Finn Juhl who had been his teacher. Biography Arne Vodder was trained by Finn Juhl, who became his friend and business partner. Bef ...

(1926–2009)

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Katie Walker Katie Walker (April 12, 1969) is a British furniture designer well known for combining simple components in her work. Her designs combine the function of the object with a sculptural interpretation of its structure. She works with craft and volum ...

(born 1969) *

Marcel Wanders Marcel Wanders (2 July 1963) is a Dutch designer, and art director in the Marcel Wanders studio in Amsterdam, who designs architectural, interior and industrial projects. Life Born in Boxtel, Wanders graduated cum laude from the Hogeschool vo ...

(born 1963) * Hans J. Wegner (1914–2007) *

Russel Wright Russel Wright (April 3, 1904 – December 21, 1976) was an American industrial designer. His best-selling ceramic dinnerware was credited with encouraging the general public to enjoy creative modern design at table with his many other ranges of fu ...

(1904–1976)

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Tokujin Yoshioka is a Japanese designer and artist active in the fields of design, architecture and contemporary art. Some of his works are part of permanent collections in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria and Albe ...

(born 1967) *

Michael Young Michael Young may refer to: Academics * Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (1915–2002), British life peer, sociologist and social activist * Michael Young (educationalist), British educational theorist and sociologist * Michael K. Youn ...

(born 1966)

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Giorgia Zanellato Giorgia Zanellato is an Italian designer of furniture, lighting, household and decorative objects. Biography Giorgia Zanellato was born in Venice. She graduated from the IUAV University in Venice, and then completed a Master's Degree in Pr ...

(fl 2000s), Italian designer *

Nika Zupanc Nika Zupanc (born 1974) is a Slovenian industrial designer. She is active in the fields of furniture, product, and interior design. Biography Nika Zupanc was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated in 2000 from the Academy of Fine Arts and ...

(born 1974)

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