Great Italian design.

Born in Tours, France in 1969, he studied at the Industrial Design High School in Paris. He founded his design firm in 2000, having broken through as a designer in the 1990's.  Rranging from industrial product design to architectural designs. In 2005 he was voted designer of the year at Now! Design for living (Maison & Objets). He currently lives and works in Paris.

John O. Van Koert was born in Manitoba, Canada.  He moved to Milwaukee and  studied art at the University of Wisconsin and later became a professor of design in the art department.  After WWII he went to New York and worked as a jewelry designer for Harry Winston, branching out into industrial design.  An exponent of MODERNISM, he helped introduce Danish Modern design while he was in New York.  He worked for Drexel Furniture.  He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1998.
 
 

Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milan, Italy on February 26, 1921.  He died on June 30, 2012.  He became an architect in the early 1950's after graduating from The Polytechnic University of Milan in 1948.  One of his statements was "Happiness Comes from Correctness".  He was internationally known for producing works that were known for their excellent design.   Mangiarotti was an architect, a designer and a sculptor.  From 1986 to 1992 he was art director of the Cristalleria Colle. His daughter continues in the tradition.

Bernard Brenner was born in Philadelphia in 1927. Bernard Brenner died in Pennsylvania in 2004.

Most of Bernard Brenner's sculpture is in cast bronze or forged steel, and was created from the 1950s to the 1990s. His pieces are abstract and expressionistic. 

He completed more than two dozen public commissions, exhibited in over a hundred group shows and had more than 20 one-man shows. Brenner collaborated

with other artists, including long working relationships with J. Fuhrman and Greg Leavitt.

Jean Charles Moreux was a French Architect, artist and designer.  His designs are classics today.  He worked with Jean Lurcat and for Baron Rotschild.  He had a diploma from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1922.

Guayasamín was born in Quito, Ecuador. 
Guayasamín won the first prize at the Ecuadorian Salón Nacional de Acuarelistas y Dibujantes in 1948. He also won the first prize at the Third Hispano-American Biennial of Art in Barcelona, Spain, in 1955. In 1957, at the Fourth Biennial of São Paulo, he was named the best South American painter.

George Kovacs was a designer of lighting fixtures.  He intorduced the halogen torchiere to the United States.