Herman Miller was one of a dozen furniture manufacturers where Gilbert Rohde initiated modern design, among them the Heywood-Wakefield Company, the Widdicomb Company, and the Troy Sunshade Company.
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12 Facts About Gilbert Rohde
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Gilbert Rohde lived in New York City and its environs throughout his life.
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Gilbert Rohde was educated in New York City public schools, graduating in 1913 from Stuyvesant High School, which was known at the time for its rigorous vocational studies program.
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Gilbert Rohde's work reflected American Streamline Moderne design, as well as trends in European art and design, including French moderne, the International Design style associated with the Bauhaus, and later, Surrealism.
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Gilbert Rohde was a tireless advocate for modern furniture and interiors in American homes, apartments, offices, and commercial and institutional settings.
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Gilbert Rohde designed many lines of modular furniture, promoted for its flexibility, functionality, and suitability for apartments and small homes.
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Gilbert Rohde became known for experimenting with industrial materials in furniture and interiors, including Plexiglas, Lucite, Bakelite, and Fabrikoid.
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Gilbert Rohde's work is included in major museum collections among them: the Brooklyn Museum, the Wolfsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Henry Ford, the Newark Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Gilbert Rohde subsequently taught at New York University, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Gilbert Rohde participated in the founding of the Society of Industrial Designers.
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Gilbert Rohde's work was publicized through hundreds of articles in design and architecture magazines, newspapers, and in popular magazines such as House Beautiful.
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Gilbert Rohde's work was featured at several fairs of the 1930s, including the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago in 1933 and 1934, and in the Decorative Arts Pavilion at San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
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