Sunday, January 23, 2011

Assignment 02 - Designer 1: Mart Stam

Mart Stam
  • Brought steel into the home by incorporating it into the furnature
  • Stam was first working for an architecture firm as a draftsman until 1922
  • He was a "founding member of the Congress Internationaux d'Architecture"
  • Mart Stam was "named director of the Institute of Industrial Art" in 1934
  • He was first an apprentice of a carpenter and then a drawing teacher
  • Around 1928, he lectured at the Bauhaus
  • In Mart's firm with his friend and his friend's wife, they developed the "Drive-in-Flats" house
  • During the War years (WWII), Stam spent that time as the director of the Amsterdam School of Applied Art"
  • He was banned from the Berlin School of Applied Art for his crazy "Bauhaus" teachings
  • He inspired others to design their own chairs, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
http://www.dwr.com/category/designers/r-t/mart-stam.do
http://www.eurstyle.com/contents/en-us/d29.html
http://www.mart-stam-furniture.com/

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