Famous Furniture

20th Century Furniture Designers and Architects’ Famous Furniture

Architecture and architects while not solely responsible for great interior design, certainly have had a profound influence on interiors and design in general.

While interiordezine.com doesn’t focus on the discipline and profession of architecture as a whole, interior design is a division and result of the architectural process.

The profession of interior design focuses and specializes in the many facets of the interior layout, function, components, lighting and decoration.

A great deal can be gained by studying the work of other great designers and their now famous furniture.

Listed here are links to other design sites that are based on the architectural and design professions and  famous furniture listed in a timeline format. This can help put the history of modern furniture design into a timeline perspective. See who was predominant in a time period, and see how prolific their work was.

Marcel Breuer

Alvar Aalto

Eero Saarinen

Arne Jacobsen

Mario Bellini

Philippe Starck

Richard Sapper

Ettore Sottsass

The timeline for famous modern furniture dates below.

1900 – 1909

1910 – 1919

1920 – 1929

1930 – 1939

1940 – 1949

1950 – 1959

1960 – 1969

1970 – 1979

1980 – 1989

1990 – 1999

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