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Steam Engine
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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William Morris
William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement -
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Christopher Dresser
Was a designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important, independent designers -
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Monet
French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions -
The Crystal Palace
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Antoni Gaudí
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art -
Thonet No.14 Chair
The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the bistro chair, it was designed by Michael Thonet -
Wood Bending
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter, whose best known work, The Scream -
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Japonism
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Christopher Dresser’s Tea Kettle
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Acanthus
Wall hanging, designed by William Morris, made by Morris & Co. in England -
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France -
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Walter Gropius
German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School -
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname -
Starry Night
The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh -
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André Robert Breton
French writer, poet and anti-fascist. He is known best as the co-founder, leader, principal theorist and chief apologist of Surrealism -
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Secession
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Fauvism
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Modernism
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Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló is a building in the center of Barcelona. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. -
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Expressionism
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Paris Metro station
Designed by French architect Hector Guimard at the turn of the 20th century, these avant-garde entryways have symbolized the city’s Golden Age of art and architecture for over a century -
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Cubism
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Electric Kettle
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Bakelite
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Futurism
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Stainless Steel
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Red and Blue Chair
Designed by Gerrit Rietveld
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De Stijl
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Mass Production
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Bauhaus
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Ríetveld Schröder House
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Surrealism
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MR Side Chair
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Barcelona chair
The Barcelona chair is a chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was originally designed for the German Pavilion -
Empire State
Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including antenna. -
Mea West Lips Sofa
The Mae West Lips Sofa is a surrealist sculpture in the form of a sofa by Salvador Dalí. The light red, 86.5 x 183 x 81.5 cm sized seating furniture made of wood and satin was shaped in 1937 after the lips of actress Mae West, whom Dalí apparently found fascinating.
