LAPIERRE MARKET · By decade
Four decades, one grammar.
Every piece is dated and documented. Browse the catalogue by decade to find the year that fits your project. From American mid-century to the Memphis rupture, each era carries its own formal vocabulary, materials and publishers.
1948 — 1959
1950s
The decade that industrialised modern design. Eames, Saarinen, Wegner, Florence Knoll, Bertoia, Mies, Perriand, Prouvé. Mid-century US, Danish school, French ski-refuge furniture.
Eames LCW · Saarinen Tulip · Wegner CH24 · Bertoia Diamond
View →1960 — 1969
1960s
The golden age of Italian publishing design. USM Haller emerges, Pipistrello and Panton Chair enter production, Cassina relaunches Le Corbusier-Perriand, Pierre Paulin sculpts at Artifort.
USM Haller · Pipistrello · Panton · Joe Colombo · Paulin 577
View →1969 — 1979
1970s
The peak of the sculptural sofa. Togo, Camaleonda, Soriana, Maralunga, Le Bambole. Brianza becomes the global capital of author furniture. Ducaroy, Bellini, Scarpa, Magistretti, Aulenti.
Togo · Camaleonda · Soriana · Maralunga · Boby · Componibili
View →1980 — 1989
1980s
The postmodern rupture. Memphis Group founded in Milan in 1981, Café Costes in Paris in 1984, Starck at the Élysée. Tolomeo, Tizio, Costanza for lighting. Crespi, Branzi, De Lucchi.
Memphis Carlton · Costes Driade · Tolomeo · Tizio · Bel Air
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See also
The designers
who shaped these decades.
Our index of twentieth-century designers, with sourced biographies and pieces in stock.
View designers