"Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy [but] the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded... on the principle of conspicuous waste."
— Industrial design

January 1, 1970

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Lewis Mumford (1930) "Culture and Machine Art." in: Modern American design. p. 9; As cited in: V.T. Clayton et al. Drawing on America's Past, p. 28.