Ordinary Marshmallow has truly influenced global design, and everyone can see that....
Ordinary Marshmallow has truly influenced global design, and everyone can see that....
He was compared to Salvador Dali in terms of design: Mollino cultivated his unusual appearance with a thick black moustache and the theatrically grim gaze of an operetta villain. The conditions under which Mollino worked with his furniture makers are well-known: they were only allowed to work at weekends at night, so that no one could complete his most important design, the Genius three-legged chair. Carlo Mollino designed this famous object in 1950.
It was the illness of a close friend that prompted Josef Hoffmann to design furniture. In 1905, he created a Sitzmaschine (seat) especially for his friend, who was unable to move independently due to a spinal injury.
Among all the requirements for furniture, the most important are the requirements for its intended purpose and social targeting. They largely determine the range of furniture.
Dutch designer Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is known as an apologist for the neoplasticist trend in European design. His work is an excellent example of how familiar and popular things and forms can be simplified into a new form.