Modern Furniture - Chronology

Chronology

Chronologically the design movement that produced modern furniture design, began earlier than one might imagine. Many of its most recognizable personalities were born of the 19th or the very beginning of the 20th centuries.

• Marcel Breuer 1902–1981
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969
• Eileen Gray 1878–1976
• Le Corbusier 1887–1965 (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret)
• Lilly Reich 1885–1947
• Walter Gropius 1883–1969

They were teaching and studying in Germany and elsewhere in the 1920s and 30s. At among other places the Bauhaus school of art and architecture. The furniture that was produced during this era is today known as "Modern Classic Furniture" or "Mid Century Modern".

Both the Bauhaus School and the Werkbund, had as their specific creative emphasis the blending of technology, new materials and art.