Quem foi o primeiro designer moderno?

Com o desenvolver das pesquisas nos deparamos com o questionamento de quem, de fato, deveria receber o título de "primeiro designer"

O trabalho para AEG desenvolvido por Peter Behrens é considerado por muitos o primeiro trabalho completo de Design Industrial, mas isso é unanimidade na historia do design?

"In the official web site of AEG and in other sources Peter Behrens is most of the time presented as the first industrial designer. Sparke (1986) claims that it is not possible to call him even an industrial designer because of his architectural background. Anderson (1968) and Windsor (1981) call him as the first 'major' industrial designer that devotes special care to product design. In the discussion of being the ‘first designer’ art historian Edward Lucie-Smith (1983, p. 99) gives honor of being the first industrial designer to a British designer Cristopher Dresser (1834 – 1904) and he calls Behrens as the first “house-designer.” Nevertheless Behrens was the first to design the corporate world of a giant company and to create a design language for that company"

(AEG & PETER BEHRENS: SYMBOLISM IN THE FIRST CORPORATE IDENTITY DESIGN ,Uygar BOZTEPE, 2012) link

Teapot, Christopher Dresser, made by James Dixon and Sons, 1879. Museum no. M.4-2006

(Tea Set designed by Dr. Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904, for James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield)

segue links sobre a biografia de Christopher Dresser, apontado por Lucien-Smith como o primeiro designer industrial e galeria com seus designs, respectivamente: Link

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