Comments on: DESIGN ICONS: LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

By: MID CENTURY SIDEBOARDS - vkvvisuals.com/blog

MID CENTURY SIDEBOARDS - vkvvisuals.com/blog — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:15:50 +0000

[…] examples of designers from that era are Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, Mies Van Der Rohe etc. Before the 1950s, furniture was more elaborate and involved complicated lines and adornments. […]

By: pinkbigmac

pinkbigmac — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:45:20 +0000

Too Iconic to be Cozy?

http://www.pinkbigmac.com/magazine/1034/barcelona-sessel-ein-design-klassiker-des-20-jahrhunderts.de.html

By: promart

promart — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:33:20 +0000

Thank you Machteld for a refresher blog into the work of a giant. I’m also a firm believer that “Less is More” and “God (perfection) is in the Detail”, because they both require additional effort in attention and self-restriction.

I find it very interesting that two (make it three with FLW) of the 20th century Masters of architecture and design never had formal training in the profession that they revolutionized.
What has nowadays, for the most part, became the odd mix of starchitecture, litigation, over-regulation and protectionism and, most unfortunately, social status irrelevance, was started more than a century ago by their creative force as the exercise in finding the right visual and form language for the contemporary built environment and the objects that can make an aesthetic statement beyond their functional requirements.

By: rick alberto

rick alberto — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:14:20 +0000

wow !