Serendipity at Silicon Valley
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Rene Herbst Paris 1891 - Paris 1982
He designed the revolutionary and functional “Chaise Sandows” seat furniture. The frames were nickel-plated tubular steel, the seat and back was made of rubber strips stretched taut and fastened to the frame by hooks at the end.
Michael Thonet discovered a method of bending wood. Thonet unravelled the complicated technical properties of wood, explored the limitations of its flexibility and developed a new body of design whose appeal extended beyond mere novelty. His furniture designs were simple and graceful with a distinctive quality that belied its true strength.
Ladder Back Chair - Hight Back Chair - The Hill House Chair
When I was studing Industrial Design, my favorite class was History of Design. In this class I learned about all the different movements of design throughout history. There I was introduced for the first time to all the famous designers and architects of all time and their most extraordinary and iconic designs of the 20th century.
I’ll start with a series of posts about these designers and their extraordinary work.
My first post is dedicated to the Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh and one of his most famous chairs.
The Ladder Back Chair.
From the minute I saw this chair I fell in love with it, and this love still remains with me.
This chair was designed by Mackintosh on 1903 for the Hill House, it is a chair in dark wood, designed into geometrical shapes, perpendicular delicate lines and a tall ladder back.
