American design
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"His [the American’s] clipper-ships, fire engines, locomotives, and some of his machinery and tools combine that equilibrium of lines, proportions, and masses, which are among the fundamental causes of abstract beauty . . . and is an indication of what may happen to the rest of his work when he puts into it an equal amount of heart and knowledge." --Art Thoughts, The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe (1870) by James Jackson Jarves |
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American design ranges from Shaker furniture to the postmodern design of Robert Venturi.
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