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Maggie Gram, "The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History" (Basic Books, 2025)

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Eameses: Design as Play and Being

Chris asks about play in rational design; Maggie highlights Charles and Ray Eames and their Solar Do-Nothing Machine as celebration of whimsy and being.

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