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	Marcel Breuer by Marcel Breuer The designer Marcel Lajos Breuer was an architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist of a jewish decent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Known as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop. He later practiced in Berlin, designing houses and commercial spaces, as well as a number of tubular metal furniture pieces, replicas of which are still in production today. Perhaps the most widely-recognized of Breuer's early designs was the first bent tubular steel chair, later known as the Wassily Chair, designed in 1925 and inspired, in part, by the curved tubular steel handlebars on Breuer's Adler bicycle. Despite the widespread popular belief that the chair was designed for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer's colleague on the Bauhaus faculty, it was not; Kandinsky admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home. When the chair was re-released in the 1960s, it was designated "Wassily" by its Italian manufacturer, who had learned that Kandinsky had been the recipient of one of the earliest post-prototype units.
	Marco Ferreri by Marco Ferreri
	Mario Bellini by Mario Bellini The designer Mario Bellini is an Italian industrial designer and architect. Mario Bellini is well known for his CAB furniture, the classic Olivetti typewriter and many other highly regarded industrial designs. He is also an accomplished architect, designing buildings throughout Europe, Japan, the United States and the UAE. He was also responsible for the design of the Lamy Persona pen. The TCV-250 video display terminal, designed by Mario Bellini in 1966 for Olivetti, is in the Museum of Modern Art's design collection. Bellini studied at the Polytechnic in his native city of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), from where he graduate in 1959. He opened his first design studio after graduation, where he was contracted by some of the largest Italian businesses including Olivetti, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Erco, Rosenthal, Ideal Standard, Poltrona Frau and overseas companies like Yamaha.
	Marit Meissler by Marit Meissler
	Mart Stam by Mart Stam
	Matali Crasset by Matali Crasset
	Matthias Demacker by Matthias Demacker The designer Matthias Demacker was born in southern Germany in 1970. He studied Design at FH Niederrhein in Krefeld and at the same time worked with a number of different architects’ studios on trade fair exhibition stands. After graduating, he moved to Munich, worked for a number of interior design studios and in 2003 set up his own.
	Max Bill by Max Bill The designer Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, typeface designer, and graphic designer. Among Bill's most famous designs is the "Ulmer Hocker" of 1954, a stool that can also be used as a shelf element or a side table. Although the stool was a creation of Bill and Ulm school designer Hans Gugelot, it is often called "Bill Hocker" because the first sketch on a cocktail napkin was Bill's work. Bill sought to create forms which visually represent the mathematical complexity of the New Physics of the early 20th century. He sought to create objects so that this new science of form could be understood by the senses. A prime example is his work with the Möbius strip form. Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmith during 1924-1927, Bill took up studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau under many teachers including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer in 1927-1929. He later taught at the Bauhaus.
	Max Kistner by Max Kistner
	Michael Graves by Michael Graves
	Michele De Lucchi by Michele De Lucchi

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