Designer StoriesMathieu Matégot and the Poetry of Perforated Metal
He folded punched sheet steel as if it were cloth, gave the technique a name in 1952, and then left furniture entirely for tapestry.
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Designer StoriesRoger Capron: Ceramics Made for Architecture
Capron did not decorate furniture with tiles. He built furniture out of a tile industry, in a Vallauris factory that at its peak employed 120 people.
Designer StoriesCharlotte Perriand at Les Arcs: What Collectors Look For
Pine benches from an alpine resort, an oak fireside chair from a hotel that no longer has its interiors, and a bench designed for a Mauritanian mining town. Three levels of the same market.
Designer StoriesWilly Guhl: Why Concrete Became Sculpture
Fiber cement was a roofing product until a Zurich teacher draped a wet sheet of it over a wooden mould. Seventy years later his planters are the spine of every Circa garden sale.
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