INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNITURE DESIGN

Interior Design and Furniture Design

Interior Design and Furniture Design

Many of today's modern furniture designs and creations are inspired by the greatest minds in architecture and design. The idea of mixing form with function, style with ease and minimalist looks with comfort has been captured by simplistic geniuses. Designer pioneers like Charlotte Perriand and Le corbusier, The Eames, Mies Van der Roe and lilly have cultivated a modern furniture style that has become globally appreciated and anointed into modern design museums all over the world. Materials such as metal, steel and wood were first introduced by these men along with a unique and exquisite artistic furniture design aesthetic that is limitless and will forever hold a candle in modern furniture history.

A French architect who gained popularity during the 1920's, Le Corbusier believed in functionalism. Before he created some of his notorious high design models of furniture, Le Corbusier studied modern high design, opened an architectural firm with his son and designed housing projects for the poor. In doing this, he attempted to use as little of the space allotted by injecting it with as creative utilities that made things easier in the household. For example, a chute in the kitchen was installed for milk and bread to be delivered daily. With as little ornamentation as possible, Le Corbusier introduced intelligent architectural frameworks to modernize society. He believed in harmony, proportion, subtlety and mathematical order in creating his design masterpieces. One of his most famous quotes is "Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois." (Mercer, 1969)

Born as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in Switzerland, later changed his name to Le Corbusier . One of his first projects was an architectural model of the "Dom-ino" House, which was a minimalist approach to constructing a three-level home, with a single staircase on one side of the floor plan. Many of his designs were invented along with the help of his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and partner Charlotte Perriand. In 1928, Le Corbusier and Perriand spoke of three different furniture types in his book, "L'Art Decoratif d'aujourd'Hui": Type-needs, type-furniture and human-limb objects. He explained how furniture is a tool to extend the human limbs and serve the human being, and he wrote about how he combined that philosophy with good taste and modern touches. (Agnew, 1989)

In 1928, they introduced a line of metal furniture that is now noticeable worldwide and is still extremely successful to this day. The LC1 sling chair is one of his most popular designs. It is now included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The idea is for the chair to adjust and shift according to the sitter's position, giving continuous support. The steel frame of the Sling chair can be upholstered with leather, but is most recognized with pony skin. Another one of Le Curbosier's famous models is the high-armed LC-2 Chair and Sofa, which was used in the 1980's Maxell commercial of a man sitting low in the leather chair, and is almost blown out ...