Tarnport on Nostr: What year would you guess this object to have been designed? If you said 1867 you ...
What year would you guess this object to have been designed?
If you said 1867 you would surely be in the minority, but you would be correct. I post it here is because I believe it illustrates very vividly the Asian pedigree of Western modernism. It arrived so early and was soon so influential and became so integral that we can barely see it today except in such early obvious pieces, but sine qua non.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideboard_%28Edward_William_Godwin%29 
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