A skyscraper bookcase in chrome and lacquer, built while breadlines ran outside. American design got its sharpest decade during the worst economy in the country's history. Almost nobody watches the whole talk. Nonie Gadsden, Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts,... Boston. A dark auditorium, a wooden lectern, one lit slide. Her span is the 1920s to the 1950s. New materials, factory production, and objects built for buyers who had stopped spending. Then she pulls the frame wider and sets North American work next to Central and South American. Watch the stretch where she explains what the manufacturing method did to the price, and who the object was aimed at once it dropped. Depressions kill markets. This one redesigned the product.show more

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