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Modernism is a quarterly magazine about 20th-century modernist design. We range from the Wiener Werkstätte to the Bauhaus to Memphis and beyond, covering Art Deco, midcentury, pop and postmodern design.
On the cover The Wallace K. Harrison House in Huntington, Long Island, built in the 1930s and recently renovated by SchappacherWhite of New York. Sculpture on wall and table by Brandon d'Leo. Photo by Lenny Marks.
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Saving architect Wallace K. Harrison's sprawling summer home was a labor of love.
Photo by Javier Haddad.
The Brooklyn Museum explores the 19th-century roots of today's spare, non-narrative styles.
Courtesy Brooklyn Museum.
The lifelong passion of this architect to Hollywood's elite was his unusual solution for low-cost housing around the world: simple concrete domes shaped with balloons.
Courtesy of Huntington Library, Maynard Parker Collection.
In the 20th century, the lines between fine art and jewelry blurred, leading to a flowering of inventive wearable art.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The Daphne Farago Collection, 2006.88.12.
Through much of the 20th century, Amsterdam's Metz & Co department store commissioned groundbreaking fabrics and furniture from avant-garde designers; the relationship with painter and fabric designer Delaunay was especially close.
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