Influences

1839 – 1894 George A. Schastey was an American Gilded Age cabinet maker and decorator and upholsterer. Schastey was born in Merseburg, Germany (then Prussia), and ...
George Nelson was an American industrial designer of American Modernism.
June 24, 1888 – June 25, 1964 Gerrit Thomas Rietveld  was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement ...
7 October 1929 – 13 June 2017 Robert Deodaat Emile “Ootje” Oxenaar was a Dutch graphic artist, visual artist, commissioner, and Professor.
January 1, 1907 – March 7, 1989 Norman Blaine Saunders was a prolific 20th-century American commercial artist. He is best known for paintings in pulp magazines, paperbacks, men’s adventure ...
Henry Dreyfuss was an industrial design pioneer.