Louise Brigham

Louise Brigham was an American early 20th century designer and teacher who was a pioneering champion of the use of recycled materials in furniture design. A system she invented for building furniture out of packing crates also represents one of the earliest to adopt a modular approach to the design of individual units.

Louise Ashton Brigham was born in Boston, the fourth of five children of William Cleveland Brigham and Maria Wilson Sheppard Brigham . She had an older brother, Waldo , and an older sister, Lucy . Another sister, Emma, was born four years before Louise but died in infancy. The final child of the family, Anna, was born a year after Louise.

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