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Karl springer furniture designer.
His signature styles were classical chinese and art deco the latter inspired by his predecessors ruhlmann and jean michel.
Karl springer 60 a designer of classic and exotic furniture by wolfgang saxon published.
He was 60 years old.
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December 6 1991karl springer a designer and manufacturer of luxury furniture and a wide array of accessories died on wednesday at his home in manhattan.
During his heyday in the 1970s springer s work was a favorite of the glamour set who enjoyed the novelty of pieces finished in rich and striking materials that ranged from exotic hides and skins to lacquer and chromed metal in a sense springer was a pre postmodernist.
Karl springer a designer and manufacturer of luxury furniture and a wide array of accessories died on wednesday at his home in manhattan.
He was 60 years old.
Born in berlin in 1931 karl springer studied bookbinding and worked as a window dresser at a prominent clothier before leaving for new york in the late 1950s.
One can still sense his clear influence in the high end contemporary furniture offered today.
His unique blending of chic sophistication and crudeness made his work powerfully attractive and the most imitated during the 1960 s through the 1990 s.
The berlin born new york based designer karl springer brought a chic high fashion sensibility to furnishings.
American bench made furniture.
Springer worked with novel materials such as shagreen lacquered parchment rare woods metals faux finishes and granite.
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