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As from 1 September 2011, Ivorypress Art + Books Space I presents the show Jean Prouvé 1901-1984: Industrial Beauty, dedicated to the outstanding French engineer, artisan and designer Jean Prouvé (Paris, 1901 – Nancy, 1984). Curated by the British architect Norman Foster and by the Professor of Architecture Projects Luis Fernández-Galiano, the exhibition revisits the whole of Prouvé’s career.

The Spanish edition of the Art and Design Magazine, AD, has unveiled the 2010 best interior designers list for Spain. After the awards received in 2006 and 2008 by the Andrew Martin International Designer of the Year Award , her work was again plébicité.

By Touch is pleased to work with Catherine and invites you to discover the pieces we publish on its behalf.

 George Nelson (1908–1986) was one of the founders of American Modernism, along with Charles and Ray Eames. He was one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the twentieth century. With an architectural degree from Yale, he was not only active in the fields of architecture and design but also a widely respected writer and publicist, lecturer, curator, and a passionate photographer. Nelson was also a prominent innovator in the development of the modern office environment.

“Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.” — Bill N. Lacy, FAIA

The furniture that Carlo Mollino (1905 -1973) designed was often one-off  pieces produced specifically for the client whose house he was decorating.
He interpreted the doctrines of neo-plasticism and rationalism  of the period with great freedom, adapting spatial, material and technical ideas with complete originality. The figure or the form of the human body is an element which is always present in mollino’s designs. the factory that produced most of his furniture work was the Apelli & Varesio joinery in turin.

Today, Zanotta has reedited its work as a tribute to his career.

In his designs, Tapiovaara always sought to create a humane, well-lit and warm dwelling environment. The furniture designed by him were always part of a whole, with the architecture as their starting point.

Ilmari Tapiovaara was awarded a total of six gold medals at the Milan triennials of 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960 and 1964. He received Good Design Award in Chicago in 1951, the Pro Finlandia medal in 1959, the Finnish State Design Prize in 1971 and the Furniture Prize of the SIO Interior Architects’ Association of Finland in 1990.