We’ve Been Here Before, We’ll Be Here Again | The 1958 Recession & Grassroots Economic Stimulation Package

 
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”    –Harry S. Truman  
 
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Le Corbusier | The Father of “International Style” Design

 
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” 
 
 –Le Corbusier 
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
 
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“The home should be the treasure chest of living.” 

–Le Corbusier 
 
 
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is [...]

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A Man’s Desk is the Portal to His Mind | How Good Design Creates Order

 
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”  –Dr. Laurence J. Peter

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Cecil Beaton | Fashion Slave from the Cradle to the Grave

 
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary”  –Cecil Beaton

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Noel Coward | Desert Dandy

How timely indeed–
“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.”  
–Noel Coward
 
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Adolphe Menjou | Legendary Style

 
“Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.”
 
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