Achille Castiglioni
Achille Castiglioni was a renowned Italian industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials.
Roland Rainer
Roland Rainer was an architect and furniture designer.
Gunta Stölzl
Gunta Stölzl was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop.
Piero Fornasetti
Combining whimsy and rigorous elegance, designer Piero Fornasetti borrowed freely from surrealist and metaphysical artists. His is an art of gestures: a lone parrot on a balustrade evokes the Venetian Renaissance, helium balloons and propellor-driven airplanes conjure up a world of humanized technology. With subversive wit, Fornasetti imaginatively transformed lamps, coffeepots, chairs and plates into agents of humor, provocation and meaning. He produced an endless stream of variations on his personal leitmotifs, including the human hand, the female face, luminescent fish, bizarre creatures of the deep and playing cards.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Sangorski and Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real gold and precious stones in their book covers.
Borsalino
Borsalino is the name of a hat company known particularly for its fedoras. Established in 1857, Borsalino produces felt from Belgian rabbit fur at its factory in Alessandria, Italy.
Friso Kramer
Friso Kramer was a driving force behind the development of the Dutch modernist aesthetic from the 1940s onward.
Avant Garde
Avant Garde produced only 16 issues between January 1968 and July 1971. But it left its mark, influencing tastemakers within the arts world. Avant Garde is partly remembered for its radical politics and embrace of erotic content.
Moxon
Moxon is a British textile manufacturer of worsted and woollen cloth.
Mazda R130
Mazda R130 is a car.