Well-known interior designers and their styles of interior design - Part 1

Introduction

4 This series of articles provides a brief but informative for 21 of the leading designers of interiors, from the early pioneers to the most famous modern designers.

The pioneers of Interior Design

Jean-Henri Jansen (1854-1928)

Dutch designer, Jean-Henri Jansen, was the first international home design of Home Affairs, "Jansen" (House of Jansen) inIn 1880 he was designing and developing mobile exceptional beauty and high quality for use in a variety of prestigious projects in design. House of Jansen opened branches in 8 cities in the world. Jansen has worked closely with the talented interior designer Stephane Boudin, who was appointed director of the company. Customers who added the House of human Jansen and the rich and famous.

Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950)

FirstDame interior decoration, Elsie de Wolfe himself as a child "bad. Actress Victoria was a rebel of his time and was credited by many with inventing modern profession of interior design, although it was already well established interior designers in their time. Elsie Victorian taste, like all his comments were, therefore, usually consists of bright colors and bright, in contrast with the dark and gloomy Victorian style combined with excessive unnecessarythat of velvet curtains. This has been a pioneer in the abolition of the contemporary design of the time. Elsie continues to feel the impact of the modern world of interior design.

Ogden Codman (1863-1951)

American architect and interior designer Ogden Codman spent his childhood in his hometown of Boston, before moving to France in his youth, in a given period. Codman had two uncles who influenced him a lot - an architect and decorator, John HubbardRichard Ogden. Some works are at home in Newport Ogden Codman Edith Wharton, Land's End, owned by the Rockefeller family of New York, a client of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the summer home of Newport Cornelius Vanderbilt II, in collaboration with author Edith Wharton, co-author of a Guide Codman Interior Design America "Decoration of Houses" 1897.

Frances Elkins (1888-1953)

Born in Milwaukee, Frances Adler Elkins was one of the most famous interior designerand designers of the last century. Sister of the famous Chicago architect David Adler Elkins was its futuristic design, which combine elements of different styles and different eras. This land belonged to the French style and Chinese-style art deco. The device represented in their drawings designers such as Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti. Elkins career that lasted more than three decades, with many high-level committees in Hawaii, shoneMidwest and Northern and Southern California, no longer interesting to the restoration of the structure in 1830, Ames House in Monterey, California.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright is a designer and interior architect, whose career includes more than 1,000 projects, 500 of which have been completed. Wright was honored for his promotion of organic architecture, an example is known for the waterfall. The Robie House is an example of WrightThe leadership of the movement of the Prairie School of architecture, when the House is the concept Rosenbaum Wright Usonian House. Wright also had ideas for every type of building, if the office of the church, school, hotel or museum. In addition to its excellent architectural renderings, Wright also designed much of the interior of buildings, including the decor and design.