Who are some famous interior designers?

Question

I need to write about an interior designer for a school project. Does anyone know of any famous interior designers, recent or from the past? THANK YOU!

Answer 1

Fritz August Breuhaus (February 9, 1883–December 2, 1960), from about 1929 on called Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, was a famous German architect, interior designer, and designer in the 20th century

Magnus Poulsson (born July 14, 1881 in Drammen - died March 18, 1958 in Asker) was a Norwegian architect.

Poulsson's work included private residences, office buildings, churches and interiors. He is most famous for designing Oslo's City Hall, together with Norwegian architect Arnstein Arneberg. He is also known for Bærum Rådhus (Bærum City Hall).
Jan des Bouvrie (b. August 3, 1942 in Naarden) is an avant-garde designer. After he finished high school, he went to the famous Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at the age of sixteen. He later started his own interior design shop, and hosted the TV show TV Woonmagazine. He married ex-model/stylist Monique des Bouvrie and had two kids - Bo des Bouvrie and Jan Jr. des BouvHarold Grieve (February 1, 1901 – November 3, 1993) was an motion picture art director and interior designer.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he attended Hollywood High School then studied art at the "School of Illustration and Painting" run by John Francis Smith in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s Grieve went to work in the film industry as a set designer and art director. He became one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and remained active all his life in the Academy's library of historical records.

Near the beginning of the 1930s, Grieve gave up working for a film studio to set up an interior design business. In 1932 his wife, Jetta Goudal, whom he married in 1930, joined him in the business. Among other things, they designed the interior of a dream home for crooner Bing Crosby and the interior of Toujours Eblouissante, the Palm Springs estate of French opera star Lily Pons that was featured in Architectural Digest. As well, Grieve did the interior of actress Colleen Moore's famous dollhouse that toured the U.S. and which can now be seen on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

Harold Grieve's wife died in 1985 in Los Angeles and he died there in 1993. They are interred together in a private room at the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of the Angels, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California

Verner Panton (13 February 1926 - 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others).

Panton was trained as an architectural engineer in Odense; next, he studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen, graduating in 1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950-1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer. Panton turned out to be an "enfant terrible" and he started his own design and architectural office. He became well known for his innovative architectural proposals, including a collapsible house (1955), the Cardboard House and the Plastic House (1960). Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back. In 1960 Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair. the Stacking chair or S chair, which would become his most famous and mass-produced design.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Verner Panton experimented with designing entire environments: radical and psychedelic interiors that were an ensemble of his curved furniture, wall upholstering, textiles and lighting. He is best known for the design of a German boats interior, now a famous museum. He is also known for a hotel in Europe that utilized circular patterns and cylindrical furniture.

Additionally, Panton is well-known for his innovative design work for "Der Spiegel," a well-known German publication in Hamburg

Answer 2

Timothy has been named one of the world's top 100 interior designers by Architectural Digest and one of the world's top 40 designers by The Robb Report.

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Answer 3

Martha Stewart

Answer 4

Elsie de Wolfe
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http://www.jeanettefisher.com/elsie_de_wolf.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED61730F937A15751C1A961948260
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_De_Wolfe
http://www.joytothehome.com/elsie_de_wolfe_design_ideas.html
http://www.canadianinteriordesign.com/kwi/Page_2/Elsie_De_Wolfe.htm
Syrie Maugham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendoline_Maud_Syrie_Barnardo
http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/Articles/Sarasota-Magazine/2006/10/Syries-Turn.asp
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D9123CF931A25750C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Dorothy Draper
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http://nymag.com/homedesign/features/16438/
http://www.dorothydraper.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/01/sunday/main2054247.shtml
http://www.dezignare.com/newsletter/DorothyDraper.html
Sister Parish -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Parish
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