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Modern Lamps in Midcentury America
In 1950, the Museum of Modern Art and New York-based Heifetz Manufacturing Company announced a design competition for floor and table lamps, offering cash prizes and the tantalizing promise that Heifetz would put at least three-quarters of the winning designs … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, Exhibitions, lamps, Lester Geis, lighting, Marcel Breuer, Midcentury Modernism, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Zahara Schatz
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