• Collector’s Notebook: Old-World Style Meets Contemporary Furniture

    Collector’s Notebook: Old-World Style Meets Contemporary Furniture
    Furniture can take unexpected forms, especially in contemporary design. From the late twentieth century onward, advances in technology created a wealth of new materials and construction techniques for designers to use, while social and cultural changes encouraged experimental approaches with new shapes and styles.Philippe Starck, born in Paris in 1949, is responsible for some of the most famous and creative furniture and industrial designs of the 1980s and 1990s, and he is still working today. O

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