It was the century of the avant-garde, and nothing in the world of art and furniture would ever be the same again.
Cubism with the giant Picasso paved the way for a whole series of experiments that would flow into the thousand faces of contemporary art.
In furnishing, it was the period of the great designers; from Scandinavian designers such as Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Ray and Charles Eames and Finn Juhl, to American designers such as Charles and Ray Eames and French designers such as Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanner, Pierre Poulsen and Pierre Poulsen.
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand and of course the Italians.
From Gio Ponti to Piero Fornasetti, from Franco Albini to Marco Zanuso, from Ignazio Gardella to Ico Parisi, just to name a few.
