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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of(...)
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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of(...)
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Success through failure : the paradox of design
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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of failure--not through easy imitation of success. Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Petroski explores the nature of invention and the character of the inventor through an unprecedented range of both everyday and extraordinary examples--illustrated lectures, child-resistant packaging for drugs, national constitutions, medical devices, the world's tallest skyscrapers, long-span bridges, and more.
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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of failure--not through easy imitation of success. Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Petroski explores the nature of invention and the character of the inventor through an unprecedented range of both everyday and extraordinary examples--illustrated lectures, child-resistant packaging for drugs, national constitutions, medical devices, the world's tallest skyscrapers, long-span bridges, and more.
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April 2006, Princeton
April 2006, Princeton
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Interior Design
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of(...)
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of(...)
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New chairs : innovations in design, technology, and materials
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of utility are all present. Inflatable, sculptural, and illuminated chairs apply imaginative dimensions to this ubiquitous object. The book includes concept drawings, prototypes, manufacturing details, and insights into the creative process in the designers' own words, all accompanied by color photos of each piece—making.
New chairs : innovations in design, technology, and materials
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This book offers more than 70 examples of contemporary chair design worldwide by designers Tom Dixon, the Campana Brothers, Frank Gehry, and Massimo Vignelli, an others. Chairs of new and reprocessed materials, chairs that knock-down or stack in imaginative ways, chairs impossible to imagine before computer-aided design, even chairs that push the traditional concept of utility are all present. Inflatable, sculptural, and illuminated chairs apply imaginative dimensions to this ubiquitous object. The book includes concept drawings, prototypes, manufacturing details, and insights into the creative process in the designers' own words, all accompanied by color photos of each piece—making.
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July 2006, San Francisco
July 2006, San Francisco
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For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal(...)
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For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal(...)
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Eco design : the source book, revised edition
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For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal impact on the earth while remaining useful and beautiful. This compendium also directs readers to little known handcrafted objects from artisanal studios. Detailed, illustrated entries describe the products, while an extensive reference section defines new and hybrid materials and provides information on manufacturers, design studios, and green organizations.
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For the growing number of people looking to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle without sacrificing high style, "Ecodesign"—now fully revised and updated—is a shopping resource. The latest edition of this sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products—from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture—that have a minimal impact on the earth while remaining useful and beautiful. This compendium also directs readers to little known handcrafted objects from artisanal studios. Detailed, illustrated entries describe the products, while an extensive reference section defines new and hybrid materials and provides information on manufacturers, design studios, and green organizations.
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May 2006, San Francisco
May 2006, San Francisco
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Arts and crafts furniture
Arts and crafts furniture
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This is a fully illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts movement covering : the influence of Ruskin, Pugin, Talbert, Eastlake and G.E. Street; the founding of William Morris & Co. in the 1860s until its demise in the early twentieth century; the fruition of the Movement from 1880 to 1910 including the Guilds, the major personalities and their attitude to Art Nouveau;(...)
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This is a fully illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts movement covering : the influence of Ruskin, Pugin, Talbert, Eastlake and G.E. Street; the founding of William Morris & Co. in the 1860s until its demise in the early twentieth century; the fruition of the Movement from 1880 to 1910 including the Guilds, the major personalities and their attitude to Art Nouveau;(...)
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Arts and crafts furniture
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This is a fully illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts movement covering : the influence of Ruskin, Pugin, Talbert, Eastlake and G.E. Street; the founding of William Morris & Co. in the 1860s until its demise in the early twentieth century; the fruition of the Movement from 1880 to 1910 including the Guilds, the major personalities and their attitude to Art Nouveau; the aftermath into the 1920s and the rise of Modernism The Arts and Crafts Movement (1860-1920)changed the way designers think about furniture. All of the main leaders of the movement are covered. Illustrations show examples of museum quality pieces: the typical production of the Guilds, the Cotswold School, the Glasgow designers, Heal, Liberty and the major commercial companies including Gordon Russell. The principal American followers are also included. Each section details the furniture of the architects and designers involved.
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This is a fully illustrated history of the Arts and Crafts movement covering : the influence of Ruskin, Pugin, Talbert, Eastlake and G.E. Street; the founding of William Morris & Co. in the 1860s until its demise in the early twentieth century; the fruition of the Movement from 1880 to 1910 including the Guilds, the major personalities and their attitude to Art Nouveau; the aftermath into the 1920s and the rise of Modernism The Arts and Crafts Movement (1860-1920)changed the way designers think about furniture. All of the main leaders of the movement are covered. Illustrations show examples of museum quality pieces: the typical production of the Guilds, the Cotswold School, the Glasgow designers, Heal, Liberty and the major commercial companies including Gordon Russell. The principal American followers are also included. Each section details the furniture of the architects and designers involved.
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January 1900, Suffolk / Easthampton
January 1900, Suffolk / Easthampton
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Selling shaker
Selling shaker
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The Shakers - a religious community whose origins are founded in the eighteenth century - continue to exert an influence upon twenty-first century life, not for their religious teachings but rather through the simple, yet elegant aesthetic they developed for the everyday artefacts they designed for themselves. "Selling Shaker" aims to explore this influence and chart its(...)
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The Shakers - a religious community whose origins are founded in the eighteenth century - continue to exert an influence upon twenty-first century life, not for their religious teachings but rather through the simple, yet elegant aesthetic they developed for the everyday artefacts they designed for themselves. "Selling Shaker" aims to explore this influence and chart its(...)
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Selling shaker
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The Shakers - a religious community whose origins are founded in the eighteenth century - continue to exert an influence upon twenty-first century life, not for their religious teachings but rather through the simple, yet elegant aesthetic they developed for the everyday artefacts they designed for themselves. "Selling Shaker" aims to explore this influence and chart its evolution throughout the course of the twentieth century via the interest shown by the media, art institutions and general public in the Shaker story. Whilst other books have sought to examine the origins of the religious or aesthetic basis of the movement throughout the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book seeks to deal with the Shaker phenomenon from a different angle. "Selling Shaker" examines the means by which the Shakers have been 'promoted' during the course of the last century by scholars and museum academics, in order to establish a 'national' style. The book follows this process from high art to popular culture influences, illustrating how the Shaker style has entered the general design consciousness, and in doing so, has become a generic style largely divorced from the original Shaker aesthetic. Using a variety of sources ranging from museum catalogues to contemporary design magazines, "Selling Shaker" aims to tell the story of the rise and rise of the Shaker phenomenon.
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The Shakers - a religious community whose origins are founded in the eighteenth century - continue to exert an influence upon twenty-first century life, not for their religious teachings but rather through the simple, yet elegant aesthetic they developed for the everyday artefacts they designed for themselves. "Selling Shaker" aims to explore this influence and chart its evolution throughout the course of the twentieth century via the interest shown by the media, art institutions and general public in the Shaker story. Whilst other books have sought to examine the origins of the religious or aesthetic basis of the movement throughout the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book seeks to deal with the Shaker phenomenon from a different angle. "Selling Shaker" examines the means by which the Shakers have been 'promoted' during the course of the last century by scholars and museum academics, in order to establish a 'national' style. The book follows this process from high art to popular culture influences, illustrating how the Shaker style has entered the general design consciousness, and in doing so, has become a generic style largely divorced from the original Shaker aesthetic. Using a variety of sources ranging from museum catalogues to contemporary design magazines, "Selling Shaker" aims to tell the story of the rise and rise of the Shaker phenomenon.
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May 2006, Liverpool
May 2006, Liverpool
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the(...)
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the(...)
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In the bubble : designing in a complex world
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
In the bubble : designing in a complex world
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In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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April 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
April 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
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Les années 30
Les années 30
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Spécialiste du XXe siècle, Anne Bony nous fait découvrir les années 30 à travers une évocation visuelle complète de l'ensemble des créations.
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Spécialiste du XXe siècle, Anne Bony nous fait découvrir les années 30 à travers une évocation visuelle complète de l'ensemble des créations.
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Les années 30
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Spécialiste du XXe siècle, Anne Bony nous fait découvrir les années 30 à travers une évocation visuelle complète de l'ensemble des créations.
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Spécialiste du XXe siècle, Anne Bony nous fait découvrir les années 30 à travers une évocation visuelle complète de l'ensemble des créations.
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January 2006, Paris
January 2006, Paris
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The once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. This volume features 22 young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with history. Hailing from across the United States and Britain, they brazenly blend the old with the new, embrace anachronism and pastiche, employ serious knowledge(...)
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The once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. This volume features 22 young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with history. Hailing from across the United States and Britain, they brazenly blend the old with the new, embrace anachronism and pastiche, employ serious knowledge(...)
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The new antiquarians: At home with young collectors
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The once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. This volume features 22 young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with history. Hailing from across the United States and Britain, they brazenly blend the old with the new, embrace anachronism and pastiche, employ serious knowledge with humor and wit, and consider vintage and historical objects through the lens of contemporary values. This book is an exuberant entry point into the world of antiques, highlighting one-of-a-kind collections and the single-minded collectors whose stories suggest compelling new ways of living with the past.
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The once rarefied world of antiques is bursting open thanks to a new generation of collectors. This volume features 22 young connoisseurs whose spirited interiors exemplify unorthodox approaches to living with history. Hailing from across the United States and Britain, they brazenly blend the old with the new, embrace anachronism and pastiche, employ serious knowledge with humor and wit, and consider vintage and historical objects through the lens of contemporary values. This book is an exuberant entry point into the world of antiques, highlighting one-of-a-kind collections and the single-minded collectors whose stories suggest compelling new ways of living with the past.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Maisons de familles
Maisons de familles
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Des familles du monde entier vous ouvrent leurs portes pour vous étonner, vous inspirer ou vous faire rêver. Qu’elles habitent Londres ou la Corse, Paris, Milan ou encore Stockholm, ces familles toutes différentes aux décors en tous genres révèlent comment elles ont réussi à concevoir des espaces à la fois distincts et partagés par tous, adultes et enfants, sans renoncer(...)
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Des familles du monde entier vous ouvrent leurs portes pour vous étonner, vous inspirer ou vous faire rêver. Qu’elles habitent Londres ou la Corse, Paris, Milan ou encore Stockholm, ces familles toutes différentes aux décors en tous genres révèlent comment elles ont réussi à concevoir des espaces à la fois distincts et partagés par tous, adultes et enfants, sans renoncer(...)
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Maisons de familles
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Des familles du monde entier vous ouvrent leurs portes pour vous étonner, vous inspirer ou vous faire rêver. Qu’elles habitent Londres ou la Corse, Paris, Milan ou encore Stockholm, ces familles toutes différentes aux décors en tous genres révèlent comment elles ont réussi à concevoir des espaces à la fois distincts et partagés par tous, adultes et enfants, sans renoncer au design. Porté par le magazine français de référence en matière de décoration intérieure et de vie de famille, «MilK», il ravira les amoureux du design qui souhaitent créer une maison de famille à leur image, élégante et moderne.
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Des familles du monde entier vous ouvrent leurs portes pour vous étonner, vous inspirer ou vous faire rêver. Qu’elles habitent Londres ou la Corse, Paris, Milan ou encore Stockholm, ces familles toutes différentes aux décors en tous genres révèlent comment elles ont réussi à concevoir des espaces à la fois distincts et partagés par tous, adultes et enfants, sans renoncer au design. Porté par le magazine français de référence en matière de décoration intérieure et de vie de famille, «MilK», il ravira les amoureux du design qui souhaitent créer une maison de famille à leur image, élégante et moderne.
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February 2023
February 2023
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Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the "boss" homes of entrepreneurs and executives, "off-the-beaten-path" homes that defy the stereotypes of urban living, and places filled with pieces handed down from generations past. Showcasing the amazing diversity of the Black(...)
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Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the "boss" homes of entrepreneurs and executives, "off-the-beaten-path" homes that defy the stereotypes of urban living, and places filled with pieces handed down from generations past. Showcasing the amazing diversity of the Black(...)
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AphroChic: Celebrating the legacy of the Black family home
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Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the "boss" homes of entrepreneurs and executives, "off-the-beaten-path" homes that defy the stereotypes of urban living, and places filled with pieces handed down from generations past. Showcasing the amazing diversity of the Black experience through striking interiors, stories of family and community, and histories exploring the obstacles Black homeowners have faced for generations, this groundbreaking book honors the journey, recognizes the struggle, and celebrates the joy that is the Black family home.
AphroChic: Celebrating the legacy of the Black family home
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Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the "boss" homes of entrepreneurs and executives, "off-the-beaten-path" homes that defy the stereotypes of urban living, and places filled with pieces handed down from generations past. Showcasing the amazing diversity of the Black experience through striking interiors, stories of family and community, and histories exploring the obstacles Black homeowners have faced for generations, this groundbreaking book honors the journey, recognizes the struggle, and celebrates the joy that is the Black family home.
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November 2022
November 2022
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Interior Design
