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Born December 15, 1888 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died March 28, 1954 (aged 65)

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French architect
Charles Eames
American designer
Ray Eames
American designer
Stephen Goddard
American cabinetmaker
John Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Thomas Goddard
American cabinetmaker
Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
Christopher Townsend
American cabinetmaker
John Rowe Townsend
British author
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
William Morris
British artist and author
Eero Saarinen in a womb chair
Eero Saarinen
American architect
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
Charlotte Perriand
French designer
Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry
Canadian American architect
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
David Roentgen
European cabinetmaker
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Vase with relief decoration by Émile Gallé, c. 1895; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Émile Gallé
French glass designer