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Born November 23, 1894 • Minnesota
Died April 29, 1989 (aged 94) • Florida
Movement / Style Art Deco
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard
American architect and designer
Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Philippe Starck
French designer
Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
Charles Eames
American designer
Ray Eames
American designer
J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll
American architect, designer, and businesswoman
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Golda Ross
Native American engineer
Joanna Gaines
Joanna Gaines
American entrepreneur and decorator
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany
American designer
Elsie de Wolfe.
Elsie de Wolfe
American interior designer
Industrial designer Charles Harrison
Charles Harrison
American industrial designer
Raymond Loewy.
Raymond Loewy
American industrial designer
Dreyfuss, Henry
Henry Dreyfuss
American industrial designer
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Richard Ten Eyck
American industrial designer
John Knudsen Northrop, American aeronautical designer, 1949.
John Knudsen Northrop
American engineer