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...emphasized one branch of functionalism a lot of modern furniture designers forget about: the buyer's pocketbook. More stylish than Cooper's furniture, Designer Coggeshall's is built with handsome but inexpensive fir or birch. Like Cooper's, his chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages. A Coggeshall dining table costs $12.50; coffee table, $3.50; chair, from $2.50 to $5. Coggeshall's proudest achievement: a $3.50 table, cut from a single piece of plywood. It stands without benefit of nails or glue. Coggeshall thinks his knock-down furniture would be fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furniture in Capsules | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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