Bayer, Herbert (05 April 1900–30 September 1985), artist, industrial designer, and architect, was born in Haag (near Salzburg), Austria, the son of Maximilian Bayer, a rural government bureaucrat, and Rosa Simmer. Bayer traced his lifetime interests in nature and art to early alpine treks with his father and to watercolor landscape painting encouraged by his mother....
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Bayer, Herbert (1900-1985), artist, industrial designer, and architect
Leslie Humm Cormier
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Buckland, William (14 August 1734–Nov. or Dec. 1774), craftsman, designer, and architect
Barbara Burlison Mooney
Buckland, William (14 August 1734–Nov. or Dec. 1774), craftsman, designer, and architect, was born in Oxford, England, the son of Francis Buckland, a small property-owning farmer, and Mary Dunsdown. On 5 April 1748 he was apprenticed for a term of seven years to a London joiner, James Buckland, who may have been his uncle. Joinery, the craft of smoothly fitting together small pieces of wood, was taught according to rules and standards established by a trade organization, which was organized along the lines of a traditional medieval guild. In eighteenth-century England formal academic architectural training was absent, and it was primarily out of the ranks of the building trades that ambitious men, armed with drawing skills, rose to claim the title of architect....
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Eames, Charles (17 June 1907–21 August 1978), architect, furniture designer, and filmmaker
Stephen Leet
Eames, Charles (17 June 1907–21 August 1978), architect, furniture designer, and filmmaker, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Charles Ormond Eames, a Pinkerton security officer, and Marie Celine Adele Pauline Lambert. In 1921 Eames’s discovery of photographic equipment belonging to his father, who had died that year, initiated his lifelong interest in photography. He began his formal architectural education at Washington University in St. Louis on a scholarship in 1925. Prior to his enrollment, Eames had worked as a laborer with the LaClede Steel Company and as a designer of electrical lighting fixtures with the Edwin F. Guth Fixture Company, and while attending the university he worked summers as a draftsman in a St. Louis architectural office, Trueblood and Graf. He left school in 1928, his sophomore year. Despite his lack of a formal degree in architecture, other jobs and contacts in St. Louis substantially contributed to his education and to the development of his interests and skills in all aspects of design....
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Charles Eames. [left to right]Ray Eames and Charles Eames. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-103825).
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Graves, Michael S. (9 July 1934–12 Mar. 2015), architect, product designer, and professor
Denise R. Costanzo
Graves, Michael S. (9 July 1934–12 Mar. 2015), architect, product designer, and professor, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the second child of Thomas Graves, a livestock agent, and Erma (Lowe Sanderson) Graves. Graves graduated from Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis in 1952...
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Knoll, Florence (24 May 1917–15 January 2019), architect, furniture designer, and business executive
Jeffrey Cronin
Knoll, Florence (24 May 1917–15 January 2019), architect, furniture designer, and business executive, was born Florence Marguerite Schust in Saginaw, Michigan, to Frederick Emanuel Schust, a Swiss-born superintendent of a commercial bakery, and Mina Matila Haist. Orphaned at age fourteen, she was under the care of a legal guardian, family friend Emile Tessin, who enrolled her in ...
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Noyes, Eliot Fette (12 August 1910?–18 July 1977), designer and architect
Rod A. Miller
Noyes, Eliot Fette (12 August 1910?–18 July 1977), designer and architect, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Atherton Noyes, an English professor. His mother’s name is unknown. Noyes attended Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard University, where he majored in Greek and the classics. He withdrew from Harvard to spend two years in Iran on an archaeological expedition. He returned to the United States and in 1938 married Mary Duncan Weed; they had four children. That same year he graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a master’s degree in architecture. He took his first job in Cambridge in the office of ...
