Furniture design
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Furniture sketches on yellow paper: Footings
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_02_19_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-13
Furniture sketches on yellow paper: Tables
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Identifier: 202101_02_19_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-13
Furniture sketches: Table with bottle and glass
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Identifier: 202101_03_27_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-13
Furniture sketches: Triangular chair
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_03_27_04
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-13
Jack M. Goldman Collection of Eero Saarinen and Associates Material
Collection
Identifier: 1995-46
Abstract
Jack M. Goldman came to Detroit in 1951 to work on the GM Tech Center project. From 1955-1958, Goldman worked for Eero Saarinen and Associates, except for a six month period in 1957 when he received the Francis J. Plym Fellowship to travel abroad and study European architecture. Goldman later was a principal in Fields, Goldman and Magee Architects in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. This collection contains news articles about various projects, program information and correspondence on the London...
Dates:
1953 - 1991
Olav Hammarstrom Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1995-19
Abstract
Olav Hammarstrom, architect and furniture designer, was born July 16, 1906, in Heinola, Finland. He received degrees from the University of Technology and the Athenaeum in Helsinki and worked for several leading architectural firms in Finland. He managed the firm of Alvar Aalto while Aalto was in the U.S. and, after joining him to work on the Baker House dormitory at M.I.T. in 1948, he decided to stay in the U.S. and married fellow Finn Marianne Strengell, head of the weaving department at...
Dates:
1930 - 1956
Injection Molded Hanging Clothing Storage
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Identifier: 202101_08_03_03
Dates:
Digitized: 202101_08_03_03
Instant Study or Office Capsule for the Home
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_08_05_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-09-29
Isaacs in Sunglasses Sit on Green Superbed on Today Show set
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_70_13__02_04
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Kenneth Dale Isaacs Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2021-01
Abstract
A graduate and former head of the Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1950s, Ken Isaacs was an American designer, author and educator best known for his portable, customizable Living Structures and Microhouses. He claimed his design philosophy was influenced more by anthropologists than by architects. Moving from place to place and working with commonly available building materials were experiences in Isaacs’ own childhood and capabilities that he prioritized in his designs....
Dates:
1900 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1945 - 2016