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Vladimir Kagan (born 29 August 1927) is an American furniture designer. He was inducted in the Interior Designer Hall of Fame in 2009, 62 years after he started designing and producing furniture. His Midcentury modern furniture with "Sinuous wooden frame characteristics" has a modern feel making it relevant for times to come. His style, inspired by everything from antiques and nature to the Bauhaus, emphasizes comfort and functionality. He was married to the late embroidery designer Erica Wilson. Together they had three children. ==Early life and Education== Vladimir Kagan was born on the 29th of August 1927 in Worms, Germany, The son of a Russian cabinetmaker, Vladimir Kagan's childhood was cut short by the rise of the Nazis. He emigrated to the United States in 1938. His early focus was painting and sculpture but in the following years he became eagerly attracted to architecture and design. Graduated from the School of Industrial Art in 1946, where he was an architecture major and then went on to study architecture at Columbia University. in 1947 he joined his father Illi Kagan, a master cabinetmaker to work in his woodworking shop and learn furniture making from the ground up. In an interview he recalls his "father saying "Measure three times and cut once" I would be of the school of cut three times and never measure" Opened his first personal shop in New York in 1949. In 1950 the Kagan-Dreyfus partnership begins with a showroom/store on 125 East 57th Street in New York. Early work included furniture for the Delegate's Cocktail Lounge at the United Nations and furniture for the "Monsanto House of the Future" at Disneyland. Kagan developed a reputation that earned him numerous design projects as well as a celebrity clientele. Some of his early clients include: *Marilyn Monroe *Lily Pons *Xavier Cugat *Gary Cooper And companies such as: *Walt Disney *General Electric *General Motors *Prudential Insurance *Monsanto *Fairchild Aircraft 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vladimir Kagan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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