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When Ben Thompson opened Design Research in Boston in 1953, his innovative store became synonymous with modern interior design, lighting a public spark that still burns today, though the store itself is no longer. When the mass-produced furniture of impersonal department stores reigned... read more
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- Marimekko: Add a description of this character.
- Ben Thompson
- Julia Child
- Walter Gropius
- Jane Thompson
- Kaj Franck
- Alvar Aalto
- Hans Wegner
- Claud Bunyard
- Armi
- Sandra Smith Griswold
- Marcel Breuer
- Benjamin Thompson
- Lorna Dawson Elkus
- Artek
- Henriette Mladota
- Herman Miller
- Christa Marcelli
- Gebrüder Thonet
- Tom Green
- Nuutajärvi
- Pauline Dora
- Ralph Caplan
- Tapio Wirkkala
- Williams
- Anne Flynt Amory Solley
- Nancy Hemenway
- Alexander Girard
- Vuokko Nurmesniemi
- Lu Wendel Lyndon
- Sam Smith
- Raymond Waites
- Massimo Vignelli
- Gordon Segal
- Paul Dietrich
- Timo Sarpaneva
- Margaret Turnbull Simon
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- Cambridge
- Finland
- New York
- Italy
- Usa
- Massachusetts
- San Francisco
- America
- Germany
- Denmark
- United States
- Moma
- California
- Switzerland
- Boston
- France
- Europe
- Joe Colombo
- Arabia
- Minnesota
- Hyannis
- West Coast
- Scandinavia
- Chicago
- Harvard
- Lexington
- Japan
- Austria
- Connecticut
- Helsinki
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- Dewey: 381.45684100973
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