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West Germany Neues deutsches Design (l) and more rational 1980s West German design, as seen at German Design 1949–1989. Two Countries, One History, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
Architecture | 09.11.2021

German Design 1949–1989. Two Countries, One History at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden

Whereas politics, economics or sport in West Germany and East Germany are well and widely studied, and the similarities and differences regularly and publicly analysed and contextualised, thereby allowing for more refined, nuanced, popular understandings; design in and from the two Germanys remains, largely, a niche subject for a small band of specialists, and on a popular level something not only repeatedly reduced to a few works, institutions and protagonists, but also defined by

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