Herman Miller

Herman Miller was founded in 1905 as the Star Furniture Co. in Zeeland, Michigan. Initially the company produced high quality furniture, especially bedroom suites, in historic revival styles.n 1909, Dirk Jan De Pree began working for the company as a clerk, and became its president by 1919^. De Pree and his father-in-law, Herman Miller, purchased 51% of the company stock in 1923 and renamed it the Herman Miller Furniture Company. Some famous designers who worked with Herman miller were Charles and Ray Eames, Bill Stumpf, Robert Propst, Gilbert Rodhe and Alexander Girard. classic Herman Miller products are the Equa chair, Aeron chair, Noguchi table, Marshmallow sofa, and the Eames Lounge Chair. Herman Miller is credited with the invention of the office cubicle in 1968 under then-director of research Robert Propst.

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Peer Review Art Deco

This week I reviewed Ashley i thought that she did a great job at talking about the elements of design. And i thought that she also had really good examples from the time period.
I also reviewed Katie L I thought that she did a good job explaining how the movement started and I also liked that she used furniture as her examples

Art Deco Design Period

The Art Deco Design period took place during the 1920s it originated from Paris bur soon grew in popularity. The characteristics of this time period were Chevron shapes, Zig-Zags, Folding screen with African tribal art, stepped profile of furniture suggested the architecture of skyscrapers, large mirrors, prominent light fixtures call attention to modern materials and the use of rich materials such as ebony, zebra wood, tortoise-shell and leather. some of the major designers during this period were Micheal Roux-Spitz, Jean Dunand, Maurice Dufrene, Jean Michel Frank, Jacques- Emile Ruhimann, Eileen gray and many more. this movement was simply a European concept until the ocean liner normandie gave the idea to the Americans. This ship was the design element that paved way for Art deco in America.

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Peer Review International Movement

This week I reviewed Amanda i really liked how she talked about what the movement was about before she went into to detail about the designers. I also really liked how had inspirations of interior rather than buildings i think she gained a better underatanding from that by knowing what the movement was really about.
i also reviewed Angie i liked how she talked about Bauhus and i also liked how focused a little more on grobuis.

international movement

The international movement had four main architects Walter Gropius, Lugwig Mies van der Rohe, Le cobusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. I am going to focus on Mies van der Rohe. Mies van der Rohe was a geramn architect who was famous for his exhibitions especially the Barcelona Exhibition of 1929. when Nazi Germany was taking over Mies van der Rohe had to relocated to America in 1937. He settle in Chicago. Where he was the head of the archtectural program at the illinois institude of technology. He made modernism more mainstream in the United States. He also coined the phrases "less is More" and 'God is  in the details". Some of Mies van der Rohe's more famous works or the barcelona chair and the Fransworth house.
 extra credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPYHznP8WP8


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