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“Design should also be sensual and exciting.”

The first school is represented by “classic designers,” such as my friends Dieter Rams and Kenji Ekuan, the late Ettore Sottsass, Jr., Mario Bellini, and Jonathan Ives. These designers can run their own studios or be corporate stars. Ten or fifteen years ago, I would have included myself in this group. This school’s approach to design is both logic

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- At the opening of the Bauhaus institution Walter Gropius read his manifesto which declared in part: - | “there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman”