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Good design never goes out of style. Our list of Favorites and Greats below is
from the time of Marie Antoinette to the present. We hope you have fun exploring and if we've
left any of your favorites out, let us know. We've provided the links below to Wikpedia, the free
online encyclopedia:
- Alvar Aalto and the Palimo Chair
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto
 - Jean Avisse produced chairs, sofas, and chaises in 18th century France.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Avisse
Maarten Baas and his Smoke Collection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Baas
Is the image to the right Avisse or Baas, can you guess?
Maarten recently worked on the remodeling of the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York.
 Aubrey Beardsley- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
If you are a fan of black and white check out his incredible drawings.
The Peacock Skirt, 1892.
 - Thomas Chippendale and his famous Chippendale Chair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chippendale
 - Charles and Ray Eames, (and no, Ray was not his brother but his WIFE! Thank you very much!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Eames
 - Eileen Gray and the Bibendum Chair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gray
 George Hepplewhite- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hepplewhite
- Mark Rothko, architect extraordinaire of Barcelona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
- Antoni Gaudi, painter who used color in a new way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
 - Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier
Chaise longue 'LC4' (1929)
- Florence Knoll, furniture designer and architect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Knoll
 Charles Rennie Mackintosh- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh
Ingram chairs by Mackintosh
- Frederick Meyer, founder of the California college of Arts and Crafts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Meyer
 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich and the Barcelona Chair they co-designed and other projects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Reich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion
 - Alphonse Mucha, considered the father of Art Nouveau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Mucha
Poster by Alphonse Mucha
- Charlotte Perriand, a collaborator of Le Corbusier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perriand
- Mark Rothko, painter who used color in a new way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
 - Thomas Sheraton, considered the father of Art Nouveau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sheraton
A Sheraton style chair with rectangular back
- Gustav Stickley; the furniture designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement often refered to as mission style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Stickley
 - Michael Thonet, who worked with bentwood and created beautiful chairs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Thonet
Bentwood chairs of Michael Thonet, 1850
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