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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"design reform"”.
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"Trifles of value": Craft as communication in Victorian literature
… surround them (such as domestic handicrafts, the Design Reform movement, and the Arts and Crafts movement) because each brings with it a set of aesthetic standards that inform craft culture. This inquiry ultimately begs the question: has anything changed in the twenty first century?</p>
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… is adjoined by two other refreshment areas: one designed by James Gamble (a salaried employee of the museum) and the other by Edward Poynter (a promising young painter with an affinity for the decorative arts). The three rooms manifest varied, even conflicting, opinions on the cultivation of …
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The profile and cost of end-of-life care in South Africa - the medical schemes' experience
… near their end of life. Hospi-centric benefit design, fee-for-service reimbursement arrangements and fragmented, silo-based delivery of care result in high, often unnecessary spending near the end of life. Factors including an ageing population, increasing incidence rates of cancer and other …
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Modernism with style : history, culture and the origins of modern architecture in Berlin, 1780-1870
… examines the origins of Modernism by considering design strategies by architects in post-Schinkel Berlin. The reasons and motivations for this interest in Islamic architecture by German architects are not easily connected to imperial prerogatives. Rather, this dissertation argues that the use and …