Ten designers who turned the printed wall into the century's most public art, from Belle Époque Paris to postmodern New York. The modern poster and modern graphic design were born together, out on the walls of the street.

Ten designers, from California workshops to Copenhagen cabinetmakers' guilds, who bent plywood and molded plastic into the shapes we still call modern. The quarter century after 1945 gave furniture a second birth.

Ten artists who took glass out of the factory and turned a molten industrial material into a language of its own. For most of its history, glass was a team sport played inside a factory.

From the Bauhaus loom to the quilted portrait, ten artists who pulled thread off the wall of craft and hung it, knotted, wrapped, and stitched, in the middle of fine art. For most of art history, textiles lived on the wrong side of an invisible line.

Ten designers, from Art Nouveau dreamers to studio rebels, who decided what the 20th century would wear. Jewelry entered the 20th century as a display of carats and left it as a form of design.

Ten potters, from a Cornish fishing town to a Nigerian training center to a California art school, who turned clay from craft into one of the great art forms of the past hundred years. Studio pottery has a birthday of sorts: 1920, the year Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada built a Japanese climbing kiln on a hillside in St Ives, Cornwall.

Ten image makers, from the diplomatic salons of Weimar Berlin to the gold mines of Brazil, who taught the world to get its news through a lens. For roughly seventy years, from the 1920s to the 1990s, the photograph was how the world found out what had happened.