"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
-Charles Eames
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.“
-Charles Eames
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"The details are not the details. They make the design."
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"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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