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Twenty years ago the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, began making miniature replicas of the great milestones in furniture design. Vitra's Miniatures Collection summarizes the history of industrial furniture design – moving from the historic, to the art nouveau movement, to ...

Belief in progress and growing economic prosperity were central aspects of the American way of life in the 1950s. Everything seemed possible and people strove to be "modern." With the aim of bringing contemporary modern design into people’s homes, designer George Nelson conceived of a wide array ...