Designer · Germany / USA · 1903–1981
Tommi Parzinger
Tommi Parzinger (1903–1981) – German-American graphic and furniture, metal and textile designer, based in New York from 1935.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1903–1981
- Country
- Germany / USA
Anton “Tommi” Parzinger was born on 7 February 1903 in Munich and died in July 1981 in New York. He was the son of the sculptor Hans Parzinger and studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule under Richard Riemerschmid. In the 1920s and 1930s, he designed furniture, posters and objects in glass, ceramics and metal for Vereinigte Werkstätten and Wiener Werkstätte, as well as ceramics for KPM Berlin and Schleiss in Gmunden.
In 1932, he won the Norddeutscher Lloyd poster competition and visited the USA; in 1935, he emigrated to New York. He worked at Reny Rosenthal’s interior furnishings showroom on Madison Avenue, designing objects in brass, glass and crystal, as well as Art Deco furniture; he became a well-known designer of furniture, metal and textiles.
