95
WINTER
2017
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At theworld’s largest furnituremarket inHighPoint,
NorthCarolina, lateOctober, the influenceswere
very worldly and contrasting styles were every-
where. Still presentedwere lots of mid-century fur-
niturepieces.Started in the1920’swith theBauhaus
movement inGermany, migrated to the Scandina-
vian countries andwent mod in Britain in the60’s,
modern stylesweredrivenand influencedbygreat
architects such as Brazilian architect Oscar
Niemeyer, Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe
Safdie (rememberHabitat67?),andGerman-Amer-
ican Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Modernist
movement explored and experimented with new
materialsand techniques thatwerebecomingavail-
able—whether used in the buildings or in furniture-
makingboundarieswere stretched.
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