Ten decorators who turned arranging a room into a profession and a language, from de Wolfe's open windows to Putman's black-and-white hotels.
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Ten silversmiths, blacksmiths, and sculptors who spent the twentieth century proving that iron and silver could think, sing, and startle.
Ten decorators who turned arranging a room into a profession and a language, from de Wolfe's open windows to Putman's black-and-white hotels.
Ten designers who turned the printed wall into the century's most public art, from Belle Époque Paris to postmodern New York.
Ten designers, from California workshops to Copenhagen cabinetmakers' guilds, who bent plywood and molded plastic into the shapes we still call modern.
Ten artists who took glass out of the factory and turned a molten industrial material into a language of its own.
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.
Ten designers, from Art Nouveau dreamers to studio rebels, who decided what the 20th century would wear.