Designers
Scriveners of the Long Dream, Architects of the Everyday.
Le Corbusier
1997 - 1965 · Architect, designer
"The house is a machine for living in."
Pierre Jeanneret
1896 - 1967 · Architect
"To create the essential with everyday means."
Charlotte Perriand
1903 - 1999 · Architect, designer
“The art of dwelling is to live in harmony with oneself and one’s environment.”
Jean Prouvé
1901 - 1984 · Constructor, engineer
“Never design anything that cannot be made.”
Oscar Niemeyer
1907 - 2012 · Architect
"It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard, inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve..."
Joe Colombo
1930 - 1971 · Designer
“These will be spaces that can transform, spaces that are suitable for meditation and experimentation, for intimacy and for communication.”
Donald Judd
1928 - 1994 · Artist
“I had always considered my work another activity of some kind…. I certainly didn’t think I was making sculpture.”