Furniture

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We mostly looked at furniture by the following companies:

Fritz Hansen
Carl Hansen & Søn
Louis Poulsen (lighting)
Cappellini
Cassina
Alias
Magis
Mater
Serge Mouille
Verpan
Extremis

Other furniture shops worth visiting in Sydney as part of your design education include:

DeDeCe
Living Edge
Spence & Lyda
Hub
Anibou
FY2K
Space
Unifor / Vitra

Living Edge, Spence & Lyda and Hub are all really close to one another in NW Surry Hills (near the Hollywood Hotel). Make sure you drop in at Published Art when you are in the area.

Designers we looked at yesterday include:

Arne Jacobsen
Hans Wegner
Verner Panton
Gerrit Rietveld
Gio Ponti
Enzo Mari, do watch at least some of this interview
Vico Magistretti
the Bouroullec brothers
Konstantin Grcic
Marc Newson
David Trubridge
Marcel Wanders
Shiro Kuramata
Tom Dixon
Alberto Meda
Franco Albini
Le Corbusier
Charlotte Perriand
Gaetano Pesce
Paolo Deganello
Toshiyuki Kita

Other designers worth looking at include:

Eileen Gray
Achille Castiglioni
the Campana brothers
Joe Colombo
Jasper Morrison
Droog
Maarten van Severen

Finally, a special link for Ms Zhuang
(because I expect she won't approve of my taste):

Kram/Weisshaar