Designers
The designers, artists, craftspeople and engineers behind the objects, A–Z by surname or by year of birth.
- Alvar Aalto
- Johan Anker
- C. R. Ashbee
- Oskar Barnack
- John Baskerville
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Harry Beck
- Peter Behrens
- W. A. S. Benson
- Morris Fuller Benton
- Melitta Bentz
- Emile Berliner
- Flaminio Bertoni
- Robert Besley
- Alfonso Bialetti
- Marcel Bich
- Max Bill
- Thorvald Bindesbøll
- Giambattista Bodoni
- Pierre Bonnard
- Marianne Brandt
- Marcel Breuer
- Carlo Bugatti
- Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
- Leonetto Cappiello
- George Carwardine
- William Caslon
- A. M. Cassandre
- Achille Castiglioni
- Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
- Gabrielle Chanel
- Pierre Chareau
- Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
- Jules Chéret
- T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
- Walter Crane
- Corradino D'Ascanio
- Gustaf Dalén
- Antonin Daum
- Jacob Davis
- Christian Dior
- Jacques Doucet
- Karl Drais
- Christopher Dresser
- Clara Driscoll
- Lucile (Lucy Duff-Gordon)
- Raoul Dufy
- Otto Eckmann
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Charles Eames
- Ray Eames
- Karl Elsener
- Peter Carl Fabergé
- Johann Maria Farina
- Mariano Fortuny
- Kaj Franck
- Josef Frank
- Max Friz
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Émile Gallé
- Claude Garamont
- Simon Gate
- Antoni Gaudí
- Eric Gill
- Ernest Gimson
- Eugène Grasset
- Guccio Gucci
- Eileen Gray
- Hans Gugelot
- Hector Guimard
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Josef Hartwig
- John Hassall
- Poul Henningsen
- Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
- Hans Hilfiker
- Eduard Hoffmann
- Josef Hoffmann
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Frank Hornby
- Victor Horta
- Maija Isola
- Arne Jacobsen
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Georg Jensen
- Jacob Jensen
- Nicolas Jenson
- Edward Johnston
- Gustav Klimt
- Paul W. Klipsch
- Archibald Knox
- Finn Juhl
- Rudolf Koch
- Arnold Krog
- Wilhelm Kåge
- René Lalique
- Jeanne Lanvin
- Carl Larsson
- Karin Larsson
- Alfred Leete
- Stig Lindberg
- El Lissitzky
- Adolf Loos
- Louis Majorelle
- Sergej Maljutin
- William Moorcroft
- William De Morgan
- Koloman Moser
- Märta Måås-Fjetterström
- Bruno Mathsson
- Pierre Michaux
- Alex Moulton
- Hans A. Muth
- Charles E. Nicholson
- William Nicholson
- André Le Nôtre
- Margaret Macdonald
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Max Miedinger
- Claude Monet
- William Morris
- Alfons Mucha
- Gerd A. Müller
- George E. Ohr
- Joseph Opinel
- Verner Panton
- Jeanne Paquin
- Charlotte Perriand
- Mikael Pedersen
- Edward Penfield
- Paul Poiret
- Gio Ponti
- Ferdinand Porsche
- Henri Privat-Livemont
- James Pryde
- Jean Puiforcat
- Dieter Rams
- Armand-Albert Rateau
- Paul Renner
- Gerrit Rietveld
- Carlo Riva
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Johan Rohde
- Alfred Roller
- Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
- Eliel Saarinen
- Vita Sackville-West
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
- Ettore Sottsass
- Gunta Stölzl
- Philippe Starck
- James Starley
- Richard Steiff
- Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
- Gustav Stickley
- Levi Strauss
- Gideon Sundbäck
- Tord Sundén
- Joseph Swan
- Fabio Taglioni
- Massimo Tamburini
- Michael Thonet
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Earl Tupper
- Charles Voysey
- Georges Vuitton
- Louis Vuitton
- Wilhelm Wagenfeld
- Otto Wagner
- Peter Walker
- Alf Wallander
- Frederick Walton
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Hans J. Wegner
- Carl Auer von Welsbach
- Tapio Wirkkala
- Philippe Wolfers
- Charles Frederick Worth
- Vilmos Zsolnay