We’ve got another great Italian Mid-Century Designer that we had never heard of before to show you today, this time the talented Paolo Buffa.Click the images below for bigger versions:

We’re so delighted when we can still be surprised by discovering a Mid-Century Modern designer we never knew about.Click the images below for bigger versions:

Tom Dixon is still around (you may have noticed we prefer reserving our designer influence piece for designers who have had time to be an influence) but his work is so powerful, unique and pervasClick the images below for bigger versions:

Well we’ve off and done it again: we’ve chosen a Mid-Century Modern designer who's work we adore, but whom we can find hardly any information about!Click the images below for bigger versions:

It’s always a pleasure to study the careers of influential designers who lived long, full lives.Click the images below for bigger versions:

It’s true we’ve been on quite the Mid-Century Modern, Brazilian designer kick lately, featuring two weeks in a row of fabulous Brazilian modern furniture design (Click the images below for bigger versions:

From one talented Brazilian furniture designer to the next…today’s designer influence has a portfolio full of furniture designs so beautiful, we’re nearly speechless.Click the images below for bigger versions:

We have the pleasure of experiencing and writing about so many important Mid-Century Modern designers who made impacts on the world of design here on the Swank Lighting blog.Click the images below for bigger versions:

We remember the first time we ever came across a Donald Judd art piece. It was in Introduction to Contemporary Art in college, and we were blown away.Click the images below for bigger versions:

There have been a number of designers who made impacts on the world of design in America, who were actually from another country. Too many to list, really.Click the images below for bigger versions: