Joseph Hoffman (1870-1956)
Hoffman having finished his studies, he visited Italy for quite some time, in fact, his thesis was awarded the "Premio Roma".
The Italian country house cubic, whitewashed with windows cut out off walls in an irregular fashion without any bought inspired his first architectural works.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hoffman also wanted to create the complete work of art: "I believe that a house should in one piece and that its exterior should disclose the interior".
His greatest commitment : to search constantly for better material and to strive for an ever more perfect performance.
His guidelines : Simplicity, honesty and accuracy.
Is design clearly evidence his preference for rectilinear cubic forms with geometric ornamentation.

Now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco.

Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies Van Der Rohe, who shared many of her ideals. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table are now as familiar as icons of the International Style as Le Corbusier and Perriand’s classic Grand Confort club chairs, yet for most of her career she was relegated to obscurity by the same proud singularity that makes her work so prized today.

Charles Eames (1907-1968)
Charles Eames is one of the creative personalities of the century, he studied architecture and in his seventy years of life has worked in many fields, always with great intensity and success.
He always preferred the type of work which gave him prime responsibility from the beginning till the end.
With the same attitude he designed many pieces of furniture, photographed, made films, taught and created toys (delightful animals made of plywood, the well-known card game).
Eames is one of the fortunate few persons who has always been able to do anything that it wanted to do.

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
Son of a Japanese father and an American mother, Noguchi was born in Los Angeles.
He lived in Japan until he was 14 years old and then went to live in the United States.
In his youth he worked has an apprentice to Gutzon Borglum, creator of the gigantic portraits of the American president's sculpted in the mount Rush More in South Dakota.
In Paris he worked with the romanian abstract sculptore "Costantine Brancusi".
In the 30's he traveled extensively in the far east studying calligraphy in China and ceramics and landscape gardening in Japan.
Noguchi has worked with the most diverse materials suck has bronze, marble, wood, granite, paper, bone, and wire.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969)
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe was born on March 27th, 1886 in Aachen.
In 1905 after having finished his studies he moved to Berlin where he remained until 1907 working has an apprentice in the architectural studio of Bruno Paul.
From 1908 until 1911 he worked as an assistant to Peter Behrens. Mies Van Der Rohe belonged to the avantgard group "November Grouppe" which also had painters and sculptors has members all dedicated to cultural renovation.
In 1937 he took his first trip to the United States where in 1938 he emigrated. He was asked to direct the "Architecture department" of the " Armour Institute".
His principle works after 1945 : Buildings for the Illinois Institute of Technology, sky scrapers in Chicago, the Seagram building in New York, a Museum in Huston and in Berlin.
Numerous honors attested to the World Wide recognition of the importants of his work.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Few would protest that Le Corbusier, Charles Edouard Jenneret, is one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. He articulated provocative ideas, created revolutionary designs and demonstrated a strong, if utopian, sense of purpose — to meet the needs of a democratic society dominated by the machine.

Le Corbusier, like his father, began by learning the art of metal engraving. However, he was encouraged by a teacher to take up architecture and built his first house at the age of 18 for a member of his school's teaching staff. In 1908, he went to Paris and began to practice with Auguste Pierret, an architect known for his pioneering use of concrete and reinforced steel. Moving to Berlin, Le Corbusier worked with Peter Behrens, who taught him about industrial processes and machine design. In 1917, he returned to Paris where he met post-cubist Amedee Ozenfant and developed Purism, a new concept of painting. In 1920, still in Paris, he adopted the pseudonym, Le Corbusier.

Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
It was already obvious in the 20's when Marcel Breuer was studying in the carpentry shop of the Bauhaus that he would became one of the great creative architects of the century.
From 1925 to 1928 he run the carpentry class.
His first still having chairs date from this period, so do hid first interior furnishings designed for the houses of Bauhaus teachers and for the Berlin apartment of Herwin Piscator.
In Cambridge he had a studio together with Walter Gropius and for 9 years was professor of architecture at "Harvard University".

Mark Stam
A Dutch architect and urban planner; he was born in purmeredin 1899.
An exponent of constructivism he than become a collaborator of J.J.P. Oud and joined him in the functionalist movement.
He studied drawing at the "Royal School" for advanced studies in Amsterdam and specialized himself in the company "Grandrè Molier Verhagen and Kok" in Amsterdam.
In 1927 he went to Dessau where he studied urban planning at Bauhaus.
In 1939 He become director of the "Institute of industrial art" in Amsterdam and in 1948 of the "Academy of figurative arts" in Dresden.
In 1950 he become director of the "advanced institute of art" in Berlin.
Among his most important works: the Theosophical church in Amsterdam in (1926 in collaboration with L.C. an Der Vleicht and J.A.Weissenhoe) and the "Van Nelle" tabacco Factory in Rotterdam.

George Nelson Architect and Designer:
George Nelson (1908-1986) was, together with Charles & Ray Eames, one of the founding fathers of American modernism. We like to think of George Nelson as "The Creator of Beautiful and Practical Things".
George Nelson was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1908. He passed away in New York City in 1986.
George Nelson studied Architecture at Yale University, where he graduated in 1928. He also received a bachelor degree in fine arts in 1931. A year later while preparing for the Paris Prize competition he won the Rome prize. With Eliot Noyes, Charles Eames and Walter B. Ford.
George Nelson was part of a generation of architects that found too few projects and turned successfully toward product, graphic and interior design.

Harry Bertoia(1915 - 1978)

Best known as a sculptor and furniture designer, Harry Bertoia was born in San Lorenzo, Udine, Italy. In 1928 he began taking drawing classes in Italy before immigrating first to Canada, then to Detroit in 1930.

He received a scholarship to the School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts in 1936 and a year later was awarded a teaching scholarship at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

There he taught metalworking from 1937 to 1942 and then graphics for one year. In 1943 Bertoia moved to Los Angeles to work as a furniture designer. He also took welding classes at Santa Monica City College and in 1947 created his first welded sculptures. During this period Bertoia became an American citizen.

Among his many awards were the Gold Medal given by the Architectural League of New York (1955-56), the Fine Arts Medal from the Pennsylvania Association of the American Institute of Architects (1963), and an honorary doctorate from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1976).