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Design history

the mid-century ideal and exhibition programme promoting simple, functional, well-made modern objects as a standard of taste.

In design history, good design refers to the mid-century ideal and exhibition programme promoting simple, functional, well-made modern objects as a standard of taste. This meaning comes from Kaufmann (1950) in What is modern design?.[1]

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Kaufmann, E. (1950). What is modern design?. Museum of Modern Art. Open Library record

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