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A *Dada periodical founded by *Picabia in Barcelona in 1917; subsequent issues were published in New York, Lausanne, Zurich, and Paris until ...

This Swedish design consultancy was established in Stockholm by Tom Ahlström (1943– ) and Hans Ehrich (1942– ), who had worked in Italy earlier in the 1960s. The company gained a reputation for functional, durable, and ergonomically sound everyday products and also developed a particular cachet for design for the disabled. The clean undecorated forms that characterized many of their design solutions are well suited to plastics, a medium with which they have been often associated. Amongst their well‐known products are the ...

(b The Hague, 1731; d The Hague, 23 Feb. 1809).

The best-known member of a family of

City in Nordrhein-Westfalia, Germany. It was the birthplace and residence of Charlemagne, ruler of the Frankish Kingdom, and remained associated

(b Cologne, 1552; d Prague, 4 March 1615).

German painter and draughtsman, active also

(fl c.1485–1515).

German painter. He is named after the great winged altarpiece with scenes from the

He is named after the great winged altarpiece with scenes from the Passion (c. 1510; Aachen, Domschatzkam.), painted for

(b Cologne, 1552; d Prague, 4 Mar. 1615).

German painter; his name derives from his father's birthplace, rather than his own. He had an international career, working principally in Italy (...

(b Cologne, 1552; d Prague, 4 Mar. 1615).

German painter; his name derives from his father’s birthplace,

(1552–1615).

Much-travelled German artist who worked mainly in Italy and Bohemia, where he was one of the foremost

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Ernest Laurent and Léon Galand. Subsequently he showed his works

(b Kuortane, 3 Feb 1898; d Helsinki, 11 May 1976),

Finnish architect and designer,

(b Kuortane, 3 Feb 1898; d Helsinki, 11 May 1976).

Finnish architect and designer. He

The work of the Finnish designer Aino Aalto (née Marsio), like the American designer Ray *Eames, has tended to be overshadowed by the work of her husband, a process in which historians have colluded. In fact she collaborated with ...

(1898–1976), Finnish architect, designer, and artist.

In addition to being one of the greatest architects of the modern

(b Kuortane, 3 Feb. 1898; d Helsinki, 11 May 1976).

Finnish architect, designer, sculptor, and painter. One

Alvar Aalto is the most celebrated Finnish architect and designer working in furniture, lighting, glass, and textiles. His work is characterized by the use of organic forms and natural materials allied to the emphatically contemporary aesthetic tenets of ...

Aalto is principally renowned as one of the greatest architects and furniture designers of the 20th century, but he was also an abstract sculptor of some distinction. His outstanding work in this field is his memorial (...

(see modernism) He set up his practice in 1922, and contributed briefly but with distinction to the