From the 20s to the 80s: the Best Posts of the Week.

I want to start the this week’s best posts with an interesting free ebook by Paradigm Gallery.

8 Designers Who Changed The Industry

It contains eight short biographies about some of the most important designers of the twentieth century; as Mies van Der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Arne Jacobsen.

It’s free and it’s interesting, why don’t you have a look? You might discover something new.
I also started a series of biographies about the people that most influenced the mid-century design, check the People in Design page.

Massimo and Lella Vignelli

I do believe that in ten years the new trend of interior decoration will be the eighties; it happened already in the fashion industry.
Many are a bit snobbish about them now but I find my decade interesting for the effort of designers and architects in re-interpretating their time using new forms and materials, as also the post-war designers did back in the 40s.
Sure, most of the famous postmodernist eighties furniture -as the ones designed by the Memphis Group- do not follow functional or modernist concepts; but I find them interesting anyway.

Dana wrote a short bio about a couple that was within the protagonists of the glorious ’80s in Italy: Massimo and Lella Vignelli.
I did not know them so I am glad I found this post.

Check the post a and let me know your thoughts about the revival of the ’80s.

People You Should Know: Minwoo Lee

Browsing Dee’s archive I found out about this, in my opinion, very talented designer: Minwoo Lee.

I do like her chair -Klassiker Lounge Chair- because of the attention to details and the high quality of the manufacture.
Check the post to see more about this artist.