In working on this loft in Manhattan, I love mixing my favs! So WORMLEY is definitely one of them!! You know his pieces, they too, are highly reprodeuced and copied,but don’t worry if you can’t get an original,
the reproductions are fabulous and after all you are purchasing the design!!
Edward J. Wormley, was a style setter in modern residential furniture in the United States for four decades.
Mr. Wormley designed furniture from 1930 to 1970. He began creating pieces with simplified silhouettes and plain surfaces after a trip in 1930 to Paris, where he met Le Corbusier and Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann,
the Art Deco designer. Back in the United States in 1931, he was hired by the Dunbar Furniture Corporation of Berne, Ind., 
to improve its least expensive furniture line, which people bought with soap coupons
and was therefore popularly referred to as “borax.”
Within five years, Mr. Wormley’s furniture had made Dunbar the top producer of modern in America. From 1931 until 1970, when the company was sold, Mr. Wormley designed about 150 pieces a year for the company,
combining a knowledge of woodworking, an understanding of the past and a feeling for what makes a chair comfortable for an American. Among the classics he designed were the A-frame wood chair with a caned back
and compass legs of 1959 and a ledge-armed tufted sofa of the mid-1960′s.
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