{"title":"Root Catalog \u003e Default Category \u003e Designers \u003e Michael Graves","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Indianopolis in 1934, Graves received his first degree from Cincinnati and his Masters from Harvard.  A member of the sixties American movement, the New York Five, Graves is both a renowned architect and a designer of desirable and popular household items. [OPEN] He is Professor of Architecture at Princeton and Director of Michael Graves Associates in addition to being a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGraves is best known for investing Le Corbusier’s rationalist style with his own wide-ranging eclecticism. The method arguably reached a pinnicle with his iconic Bird \u003ca title=\"Alessi Kettle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.design55online.co.uk\/alessi-bird-kettle-in-black.html\" target=\"_self\"\u003eAlessi Kettle\u003c\/a\u003e – which fuses Art Deco with American Pop Culture. It can be seen in the V \u0026amp; A and Manhattan’s MoMA, and remains a best-seller.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA recipient of many awards throughout his life, Graves was awarded the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2012.[CLOSE]\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sanix-shopify-dev.myshopify.com\/collections\/michael-graves.oembed","provider":"Sanix Shopify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}