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	The Bauhaus Ideal: Then and Now: An Illustrated Guide to Modernist Design and Its Legacy Author: William Smock Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers Year: 2004 ISBN 0897335228
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A history of modernist design, enhanced by the author's pencil sketches of architecture, furniture, glassware, tableware, and the whole range of domestic arts. Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames and others were part of a movement to make sense of design in the modern world, to combine usefulness, beauty, and economy into a reasonable whole.

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