List B

Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni’s secret is to joke all the time. He was graduated in 1944 as architecture, but he began working with his elder brothers, Livio and Pier Giacomo in an industrial design studio. At last he turned up a product designer and also a popular tutor in polytechnic university. Today, many of his work are in the collections of many international museum of modern art. He shows how a simple object could intelligently fulfilled the user, and also applied those criteria to his work. The ideas of their well-known Ready-Made design, Sella bicycle seat stool fulfilled what he wants, he designed it because he likes to move around, and also sit, but not completely sit. His mezzadro chair was amazed, he successfully designed a chair stand with just a leg. His contention was that to design a new product or to improve an existing one, the designer had a responsibility first to analyze whether it was necessary and then to investigate what sort of ‘means’, were available to develop and produce it. References: Online; - http://designmuseum.org/design/achille-castiglioni - http://www.designboom.com/achille.html - http://www.art-directory.info/design/achille-castiglioni- 1918/index.shtml - http://www.luminaire.com/designers/achille_castiglioni/

Book;

- Furniture, edited by Penny Sparke, published by Bell &

Hyman

- Achille Castiglioni, edited by Paolo Ferrari, published

by Centre Georges Pompidou

Poul Kjaerholm

Poul Kjaerholm originally wanted to be a painter,

but he continued his education and was known as

a knowledgeable and talented young man. In 1955,

he began a partnership with his manufacturer

friend and also a started his academic career. His

PK22 chair was the beginning of his successful

career in furniture design. As we can see from his

designs, the character of his design is more to

elegance, clean lines and remarkable attention to

detail and he could not design pieces that lack of

character. He tends to design products that could

be mass-produced and sell with affordable prices.

Most of his designs are inspired by his love of

nature and he loves to combine material into one

product rather than just simply produced with one

material especially steel a material with the same

artistic merit as wood and leather. He considers

steel a merrit. His PK24’s design is similar as the

LC4 chaise longue, through the improved of

material and technologies, he managed to make

the chair looks light and simple with cane and

steel.

References: Online; - http://www.furnituredesign24.com/poul-kjaerholm.aspx - http://www.designaddict.com/design_index/index.cfm/fu seaction/designer_show_one/DESIGNER_ID/311/ - http://www.danish-furniture.com/designers/poul-kjaerholm/

Book;

- Modern Chair, 1918 - 1970, published by Lund Humphries

Publishers Limited