Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
In its striking curtain wall of glass and modernist steel columns, Gordon Bunshaft’s International-style design for the Lever House — cocreated with Natalie de Blois — garnered widespread acclaim. The Pritzker Prize-winner was a legendary American architect, and his influence can be found today in city skylines all over the world.
Bunshaft studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before undertaking fellowships in Europe and North Africa. In 1937, he joined New York City architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill where he worked until his retirement in 1979.
Bunshaft shared the same interest in modernist furniture as Florence Knoll, an architect and furniture designer who had a subtle but profound influence on the course of mid-century American modernism and who helped make Knoll Inc. a leading firm in its field. Bunshaft recommended that Knoll be placed in charge of interiors when, while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he designed the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company’s headquarters in the mid-1950s.
Bunshaft’s projects drew heavily on the pioneering architectural work of Le Corbusier as well as Mies van der Rohe, an iconic furniture designer and fellow proponent of modernist architecture.
Celebrated architectural marvels created by Bunshaft include the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library for Yale University and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Research Building for the University of Texas. Completed in 1974, Bunshaft designed the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and finished the National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1983. The National Commercial Bank was his last project.
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1960s American Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Marble, Steel
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Aluminum, Steel
Mid-20th Century Belgian Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Wood
2010s American Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Wood, Hardwood, Maple, Walnut
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Carrara Marble
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Rosewood, Mahogany
Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Marble, Chrome
1980s American Space Age Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Olive, Burl, Oak
2010s American Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Oak
1960s American Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Laminate, Walnut
2010s American Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Brass
2010s American Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Brass
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Slate, Chrome
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Belgian Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Wood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Belgian Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Wood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Chrome
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Chrome
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gordon Bunshaft Furniture
Marble, Steel