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Henry Massonnet was born in Oyonnax, a small village perched at an altitude of 700 metres in the Ain department, France.
After his baccalaureate, he went to Paris and entered the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He enrolled in the Higher Teacher Training College and was sought after by the Grande Ecole of Engineering but his head was eventually turned by a young girl from Lyon whose love drew him away from his brilliant studies.
In 1948, he established the company STAMP inside an old mill in Nurieux, a small village located half-way between Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax.
1968: The Tam Tam Stool. A roa[... mehr]
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(1902-1973) Born in Helsinki, Finland. Artist and glass designer Göran Hongell was one of the pioneers of Finnish glass tradition. Back in the 1930s, he presented a first version of what would become his most famous creation, the hand-blown glass series Aarne. In 1954, he won the gold medal at the Triennale in Milan with Aarne.
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