It’s true we’ve been on quite the Mid-Century Modern, Brazilian designer kick lately, featuring two weeks in a row of fabulous Brazilian modern furniture design (Click the images below for bigger versions:

There have been a number of designers who made impacts on the world of design in America, who were actually from another country. Too many to list, really.Click the images below for bigger versions:

Eileen Gray was the subject of our designer influence yesterday, and for many reasons: not only is her portfolio of furniture designs gorgeous, but they’ve made a huge impact on the world of deClick the images below for bigger versions:

We focus a lot on Mid-Century Modern designers—those designers working around the 1950s and 1960s—a lot on the Swank Lighting blog (it is a favorite era of ours) but there were a number of designeClick the images below for bigger versions:

You've probably seen George Nelson's famous bubble lamps before---those futuristic, white, and modern hanging lights that adorned many Mid-Century ceilings and nearly as many modern ceilings of today.Click the images below for bigger versions:

When most people think of modernism, images of Mid-Century design from the 1950s and 1960s are often conjured up in the mind. Modernism started much earlier than those decades, though.Click the images below for bigger versions: