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Ideas & Culture · 1851

Great Exhibition, London

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Works dated 1848–1854

The first World's Fair put industrial design and global culture on display side by side, blurring art and manufacture, a tension Arts & Crafts and later the Bauhaus would directly address.

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Great Exhibition, London (1851) · Ellsworth