Modern Furniture Designers (cont) Vladimir Kagan Vladimir Kagan came to the United States in 1938.His earliest focus was on painting and sculpture but in his formative years he became exceedingly attracted to architecture and design. He studied Architecture at Columbia University and in 1947 joined his father,Illi Kagan.a master cabinetmaker,to work in his woodworking shop and learn furniture making from the ground up. Kagan's early commissions included the delegate's Cocktail Lounges for the first United Nations Headquartersin Lake Success N.Y. In 1949 he opened his first shop in New York on East 65th Street and moved to fashionable 57th Street in 1950. His clients were luminaries in the world of art, theater, music and industry. They included Marilyn Monroe,Xavier Cougar, Lilly Pons and Gary Cooper; Sherman Fairchild of Fairchild Aviation, Walt Disney, General Electric, General Motors and the Government of Venezuela. Connoisseurs and museums are avidly collecting his designs.Kagan's furniture is in private collections of Barbara Jacobson of the Museum of Modern Art, film director David Lynch and David Bowie, as well as the late artists Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Frank Sinatra. Vladimir Kagan is one of today's most enduring designers of modern furniture with a career that has spanned over fifty-five years. 
Vladimir Kagan Chaise 
Vladimir Kagan Sofa
Harry Bertoia Sculptures Harry Bertoia was a sculptor of kinetic objects, many of them with mazes of thin rods that appear brush like,Bertoia was born in Son Lorenzo,Italy and came to America in 1930.In 1936, he studied at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts and then attended Cranbrook Academy of art in Bloomfield,Michigan, where he later taught and established the metalworking department.During this time,he began experimenting with jewelry forms and explored ideas that would later emerge into sculpture. In 1949,he moved to Barto. Pennsylvania where he joined Hans Knoll in Knoll Associates. He became a prolific architectural sculptor. His first commission was a screen for General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.His first sculpture exhibition was in 1951 at Knoll Showroom in New York. It was Bertoia's custom not to sign his works because he believed that the piece itself was a signature,that what he created belonged to the universe,and that a signature called attention to the artist rather than the work of art. 
Harry Bertoia Bush Sculpture 
Harry Bertoia Sculpture
Paul Evans Furniture Paul Evans was a furniture designer and mixed-metal sculptor in bronze, silver and gold. Paul Evans first earned public notice with an exhibition that included his work in 1957 at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City. In 1964, he became a designer for Directional. 
Paul Evans Credenza 
Paul Evans Sofa
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