Items28The creator’s order
  1. 1Christopher DresserChristopher DresserBorn 4 Jul 1834Christopher Dresser, a Glasgow-born botanist turned designer, produced metal teapots, toast racks and claret jugs in the 1870s and 1880s for firms such as James Dixon and Sons and Hukin and Heath, with bare geometric forms and angled handles that look startlingly modern. He was one of the first…0i
  2. 2Peter BehrensPeter BehrensPeter Behrens became artistic consultant to the German electrical company AEG in 1907 and designed its electric kettles, fans, arc lamps and clocks, as well as its logo, catalogues and the Turbine Factory in Berlin. His kettles used interchangeable parts and finishes to offer many versions from a…0i
  3. 3Marianne BrandtMarianne BrandtMarianne Brandt, one of the few women admitted to the Bauhaus metal workshop under László Moholy-Nagy, made the small brass and ebony tea infuser of 1924 that became an icon of geometric design. Her more lasting influence came through the Kandem bedside and desk lamps she developed with Hin…0i
  4. 4Wilhelm WagenfeldWilhelm WagenfeldWilhelm Wagenfeld designed the Bauhaus table lamp in 1924 with Carl Jakob Jucker, a glass dome on a clear stem that is still made. He went on to design for mass production at the Lausitz glassworks and for WMF, including the Kubus stacking glass containers of 1938, which fit neatly together in a…0i
  5. 5Margarete Schütte-LihotzkyMargarete Schütte-LihotzkyBorn 23 Jan 1897Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austria's first woman architect, designed the Frankfurt Kitchen in 1926 for Ernst May's social housing estates, a compact galley with fitted cupboards, labelled aluminium storage drawers, a fold-down ironing board and a work sequence planned by timing housework like a…0i
  6. 6Raymond LoewyRaymond LoewyBorn 5 Nov 1893Raymond Loewy, a French-born designer working in New York, restyled the Gestetner duplicator in 1929 and the Sears Coldspot refrigerator in 1934, wrapping machinery in clean, rounded shells that boosted sales. His large office, with designers often uncredited, went on to shape Greyhound buses,…0i
  7. 7Henry DreyfussHenry DreyfussHenry Dreyfuss designed Bell telephones for decades, including the Model 302 of 1937 and the Model 500 of 1949, whose handset shape came from measuring hundreds of faces. He also designed the Honeywell round thermostat and the Polaroid SX-70 camera with his firm. His book Designing for People and…0i
  8. 8Russel WrightRussel WrightBorn 3 Apr 1904Russel Wright's American Modern dinnerware, launched in 1939 and made by Steubenville Pottery, had soft organic shapes and mix-and-match colours, and sold some 250 million pieces over two decades. With his wife Mary Wright he wrote Guide to Easier Living in 1950, arguing for informal homes without…0i
  9. 9Earl TupperEarl TupperEarl Tupper, a New Hampshire inventor, turned polyethylene slag from a DuPont plant into flexible food containers in 1946, with an airtight lid modelled on the inverted rim of a paint tin. Shops struggled to sell them until Brownie Wise developed Tupperware home parties from 1948, demonstrating the…0
  10. 10Eva ZeiselEva ZeiselBorn 13 Nov 1906Eva Zeisel, a Hungarian-born ceramicist who survived imprisonment in the Soviet Union, designed Museum dinnerware for Castleton China in 1946 and the playful Town and Country range for Red Wing Potteries, with curving, hand-friendly shapes that nestle together. Her salt and pepper shakers lean…0i