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George Nelson study and a living room An Exhibition for Modern Living Detroit Institute of Arts
Design Calendar | 11.09.2014

(smow) blog Design Calendar: September 11th 1949 - For Modern Living Opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts

As has oft been noted in these pages, the years following the Second World War were years of quick, radical, fundamental social, cultural and economic change. Changes from which the then fledgling furniture design industry greatly benefited: and from which it continues to benefit with many of the popular mass market designs created back then becoming the design classics of today. The design week having not yet been invented and those furniture trade fairs that existed being very much the

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