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Ergonomics and Anthropometrics Y7. Chair styling. Memphis. A design school with wacky ideas! They used lots of colours and strange combinations of shapes and materials. Memphis. Memphis. Bauhaus. The most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century.
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Ergonomics and Anthropometrics Y7 Chair styling
Memphis • Adesign school with wacky ideas! • They used lots of colours and strange combinations of shapes and materials.
Bauhaus • The most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century. • Breuer was inspired by the shape and form of a bicycle handlebars when he created one of his most famous pieces – the Wassily chair
Jasper Morrison • A modern day leading British designer. • He is quite ready to experiment with new materials and technologies.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh • Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of the most creative figures of the early 20th century. • His designs are a clear start to the Art Deco movement.
Alvar Aalto • The most important Finnish architect of the 20th century. • His furniture was mainly designed around bentwood construction (steamed and laminated) • His designs were influenced by Breuer
Marc Newson • Modern Australian designer • Has designed the interior for Richard Branson’s space plane • A lot of his work is influenced by science fiction.
Verner Panton • Danish designer with a futuristic style • Was the leading designer of most of the plastic furniture developed in the 1960s • Developed the S chair (stacking) that led to mass production of this one piece polypropylene classic
Gerrit Rietveld • Gerrit Rietveld conceived of each piece of furniture as an ideal, abstract composition of surfaces and lines in space. • The form of abstraction Rietveld adopts with the red/blue chair bears comparison to painter Piet Mondrian.
