Exercise #4

Lauren

Philippe Starck
Born: January 18, 1949
Paris, France

Ghost chair
Material: Polycarbonate

Mademoiselle chair
Design Philippe Starck, 2003
Polycarbonate & upholstery
Made in Italy by Kartell

Karim Rashid-s a Canadian-American industrial designer. His designs include furniture, lighting, surface
design, brand identity and packaging. Time magazine has described him as the "most famous industrial designer
in all the Americas"

Born: September 18, 1960 (age 55)

Cairo, Egypt
Nationality: Canadian-American
Ethnicity: Egyptian, English
Alma mater: Carleton University
Occupation: Industrial Designer
Known for: plastic consumer
products
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vondom Vertex chair

Made of polyethylene resin by rotational

moulding. 100% Recyclable. Item suitable
for indoor and outdoor use. Available in
different finishes.
is a set of table and chairs with triangular
planes which join dynamically together to
create comfortable forms suitable for
dining or meeting rooms, banquet or
lecture halls and other casual needs.
looks as if it was chiseled from a single
block of material, what remains is
structural yet, beautiful.
was created to integrate a more conceptual
architectural piece into our space, to give
it a more sophisticated touch.

Karim Rashid Bite Me Chair

Style: organic design

Material: plastic
Options: stackable
Designer: by Karim Rashid
Description: Baby Bite is a
zoomorphic object.
It is a stool, a side table or a table
base, all in one.
Like a children's game, they fit
into each other and thus create
new shapes.

Frank Ghery
born Frank Owen Goldberg;
28 February 1929
is a Canadian-born American architect,
residing in Los Angeles.
A number of his buildings, including
his private residence, have become
world-renowned attractions.
His works are cited as being among
the most important works of
contemporary architecture in the 2010
World Architecture Survey, which led
Vanity Fair to label him as "the most
important architect of our age.

Wiggle Chair

is made from cardboard.

This chair, called the Wiggle
Chair, is one of the Easy Edges
collection designed by Frank
Gehry, internationally architect
and designer.
The Wiggle Chair is made of 60
layers of cardboard held together
by inner screws (not visible from
the outside) and with fibreboard
edging that gives a smooth, clean
finish to the piece.

 Gehry Cross Check Chair

Frank Gehry, 1990
Knoll, USA
materials: white maple veneers,
clear placates glides

George Nelson
19081986, was an American industrial designer and one of the
founders of American Modernism. While Director of Design for the
Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his design studio,
George Nelson Associates, Inc., designed much of the 20th century's
most iconic modernist furniture.

The Marshmallow Sofa

Design George Nelson & Irving

Harper, 1956
Metal frame, upholstery
Made by Herman Miller

Pedestal stool
Design George Nelson, 1954
Aluminum, foam, upholstery
Made by Herman Miller

Patricia Urquiola
born 1961, is a Spanish architect and designer.
Oviedo, Spain.
Education: Polytechnic University of Milan, Technical University of
Madrid.

FOLIAGE CHAIR
Geometry: Polygonal
Detail level: Photorealistic

Lilo Chair A Scandinavian

Inspiration

This time, Urquiola presents Lilo,

the first product for Moroso 2015
Collection, inspired by some
great contemporary scandinavian
designers of the 1950s.
The classic frame is revised into a
contemporary armchair featuring
comfortable finishes, with a rugged
wood structure that holds the
weight of the bold upholstery that is
positioned according to ergonomics.
The slight incline of the back,
followed by the elongated shape of
the armrests accompanies the
resting, almost prone position.

Zaha Hadid

31 October 1950 31 March 2016

was an Iraqi-born British architect.
Hadid liberated architectural geometry with the creation of highly
expressive, sweeping fluid forms of multiple perspective points and
fragmented geometry that evoke the chaos and flux of modern life.

The Aria lamp

contains a core of six light sources

facing outwards plus a downwardfacing spotlight, which shine
through 50 sheets of translucent black
plastic. Each plastic profile is slightly
different so they form a fluid,
asymmetric shape when hung radially.
In Milan 2013

 Called Serac Bench

Milan 2013: Zaha Hadid imagined a block of ice formed in the
crevasses of a glacier for the design of this bench, launching this week
in the Tortona district of Milan.
is made from a resin and quartz composite that gives it a sparkling
white color.

Ron Arad (industrial designer)

born 24 April 1951
is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect.

Rover Chair
Black leather Rover Chair (3.5
litre one-seater) on black
lacquered tubular steel, designed
in 1981.

The Big Easy Chair

Material: steel
The Big Easy Chair was created
by artist/designer Ron Arad in
1988.

George Katsutoshi Nakashima

May 24, 1905 June 15, 1990
was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was
one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a
father of the American craft movement.

Conoid Chair by George Nakashima, 1988

Pair of walnut Conoid chairs
from Nakashima. This pair of
chairs was originally designed
with the "Special Walnut
Breakfast Table" also listed
on1stdibs. Price is per chair.

Single Board" Table

all parts rosewood.
New Hope, PA, circa early 1980s.
Entirely old-growth rosewood
from single tree.
Large highly figured single
board.

Gaetano Pesce
born 1939 is an Italian architect and a leading figure in contemporary
industrial design.
Mr. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and
Florence. During his 50-year career, Mr. Pesce has worked as an
architect, urban planner, and industrial designer. design.

Organic Building by Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce 'Feltri' Chair for Cassina, Italy,

1987
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Italy
DATE OF MANUFACTURE:
circa 1990s
MATERIALS AND
TECHNIQUES: Cotton Felt
Resin

Robert Venturi
born June 25, 1925 is an American architect.
Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped to
shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and
think about architecture and the American built environment. Their
buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also
contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture.

Art Deco Chair Model no. 665 by Robert

Venturi for Knoll
This Robert Venturi chair for
Knoll International USA was in
production from 1978-1986. The
unique artwork detail is screen
printed laminate over plywood.

 Robert Venturi, Chippendale

Chair, Grandmother's Tablecloth,
for Knoll.
OF THE PERIOD: Post-Modern
PLACE OF ORIGIN: United
States
DATE OF MANUFACTURE:
unknown
PERIOD: 1990-1999

Marc Newson
born 20 October 1963
is an industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design,
furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. His style uses smooth
geometric lines, translucency, strength, transparency and tends to have
an absence of sharp edges.

Embryo Chair
Year: 1988
Key materials: Aluminium,
Metal components, Polyurethane
foam and Textile.

Lockheed Lounge (By the courtesy of Marc

Newson Ltd.)

 Year: 1988
Key materials: Aluminium and GRP

Thank you