final timeline

  • The industrial revolution starts

  • Period: to

    history of design

  • Period: to

    cast iron and other techniques popularize

    including paper-mache
  • Birth of William Morris

  • Birth of Henry Cole

  • Thonet discovers wood bending

  • Arts and crafts beggins

  • Cole creates the SEAMC

  • The journal of design is made by Henry Cole

  • Thonet makes the iconic chair no.4

  • The great exibition in London

  • The Victoria and Albert museum

  • Thonet Brothers Co.

  • First aesthetics movement signs appear

  • Thonet's chair no.14

  • Marshall & Faulkner firm

  • Birth of Adamo Boaro

  • Birth of Toulouse-Lautrec

  • Birth of Josef Hoffmann

  • Death of Thonet

  • Death of Henry Cole

  • Birth of Walter D Teague

  • Birth of Marcello Nizzoli

  • Birth of Gio-Ponti

  • Birth of Norman Bel Geddes

  • Birth of Harold Van Doren

  • Art Noveau is formally declared as an arts movement

  • Birth of Alvar Aalto

  • Birth of Henry Dreyfuss

  • birth of Eva Seizel

  • Birth of Carlo Mollino

  • Beginning of Expressionism

  • Birth of Max Bill

  • Birth of George Nelson

  • Birth of George Nelson

  • The Futurism Manifesto

  • Bel Geddes' Streamlining

  • Josef Hoffmann's Kubus chair

  • Expressionism is formally defined

  • Birth of Eero Saarinen

  • Deutscher Werkbund Art in Industry and Trade

  • World War one beggins

  • Deutscher Werkbund

    transport in Cologne
  • Period: to

    World War one

  • End of World War one

  • Marcello Nizzoli opened a studio in Milan and designed silk scarves featuring patterns in the Art deco fashion

  • The Last Futurist exhibition of painting

  • The Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar

  • Constructivism

  • Futurism is vanished from Germany by the fascists

    they described it as degenerate
  • The first working group of constructivists

  • Deutscher Werkbund Form without Ornaments in Berlin

  • The Bauhaus moves to Dessau

  • The paris exhibition officially launchd art deco

  • Walter D. Teague works with Kodak

  • Bel Geddes opens his industrial design studio

  • Major Werkbund exhibition The Apartment by Mies van der Rohe in Stuttgart

  • Gropius is replaced by Hannes Meyer as director of th Bauhaus

  • Bel Geddes' Airliner number 4

  • Henry Dreyfuss wins the phone of the future award

  • Deutscher Werkbund Home and Workplace in Breslau

  • Henry Dreyfuss opens the first industrial design office

  • Bauhaus Meyer is dismissed as director

  • Alto starts production with bent birch wood.

  • Deutscher Werkbund The Inexpensive Object of Utility in Berlin

  • The Bauhaus moves to Berlin

  • Bauhaus in Dessau is closed

    caused by the Nazis coming to power locally
  • George Nelson wins the Prix de Rome in architecture

  • ¡Birth of Dieter Rams

  • Deutscher Werkbund Living Neccessities in Stuttgart

  • Henry Dreyfuss designs the flat top refrigerator

  • Art Deco at the American World Fair in Chicago

  • The Nazis disband Deutscher Werkbund

  • Union des artistes modernes manifesto

  • American National Company (ANC)

  • For modern art, framework of the contemporary life manifesto

  • Eva Zeisel lands in New York with her husband Hands

  • The second world war beggins

  • Art Deco at The American World Fair in New York

  • Van Doren's Master Washer

  • New York world fair "Futurama" by Bel Geddes

  • Period: to

    Second World War

    The war takes away various artists of many movements
  • Van Doren publishes Industrial Design: A Practical Guide.

  • ITESM

  • Bel Geddes' Mark I Computer

  • The second world war ends

  • Zeisel gains national notice in the US with the porcelain table service´s first show devoted solely to a female designer.

  • The divisumma 14

    one of the first electronic calculators
  • Henry Dreyfuss' model 500 desktop

  • Deutscher Werkbund makes a comeback after World War II

  • Henry Dreyfuss' round thermostate

  • wall mounted telephone by Hnerry Dreifuss

  • Death of Norman Bel Geddes

  • Death of Walter D Teague

  • Period: to

    Eva Seizel takes a break from design

  • Death of Henry Dreyfuss

  • Death of Alvar Aalto

  • Eva Seizel Resumes her work

  • Deutscher Werkbund 100th anniversary in Berlin

  • death of Eva Seizel