Designed by Fashion Designers

The Garment Extended: Fashion Designers in Furniture, Lighting, and Interior Textiles, 1969–Present

Introduction

The objects gathered in this section exist at a disciplinary boundary that design history has struggled to name. They are furniture pieces, lighting fixtures, and interior textiles produced by figures whose primary practice is fashion — but they are not licensing exercises, not pattern transfers, not the application of a signature motif to someone else's chair. They represent attempts by designers trained in the organization of space around the body to extend that spatial logic to...