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An impression of 16th century Antwerp by Gerard Horenbout (source commons.wikimedia.org)

Lost Furniture Design Classics: The Turf Topped Bench

Celebrating the Renaissance era humanist and author Thomas More's contribution to the history of furniture design. And a work sadly now as lost as his fabled commonwealth.... Abraham Ortelius' map of Utopia (ca 1595) (Source https://commons.wikimedia.org/) Utopia: Then as now In late December 1516 the Flemish printer Dirk Martens published the first edition of Utopia by Thomas More, a retelling by More of an account of a far off commonwealth, one so strictly, logically and naturally governed

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