10 Designers Who Defined Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Ten designers, from California workshops to Copenhagen cabinetmakers' guilds, who bent plywood and molded plastic into the shapes we still call modern.
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Decorative Arts
Artistry in everyday objects. Explore the decorative traditions that bring craft and beauty to functional design.
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Ten silversmiths, blacksmiths, and sculptors who spent the twentieth century proving that iron and silver could think, sing, and startle.
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10 Artists Who Defined the Studio Glass Movement
Ten artists who took glass out of the factory and turned a molten industrial material into a language of its own.
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From the Bauhaus loom to the quilted portrait, ten artists who pulled thread off the wall of craft and hung it, knotted, wrapped, and stitched, in the middle of fine art.
10 Jewelry Designers Who Defined Their Eras
Ten designers, from Art Nouveau dreamers to studio rebels, who decided what the 20th century would wear.
10 Ceramic Artists Who Defined Studio Pottery
Ten potters, from a Cornish fishing town to a Nigerian training center to a California art school, who turned clay from craft into one of the great art forms of the past hundred years.
Decorative Arts and Cultural Identity Around the World
A Navajo weaver carefully picks each hue of wool. They translate the colors of the desert into a storm pattern rug.