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Word: swankered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair made for the Finnish civil guard headquarters is blunt and homely, but utility was the point: half a dozen or more could be stacked up for storage. A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet. Yet despite the curvature, it is still a plain old chair, a clunky seat stuck onto four legs-a goat just beginning, it appears, to turn into a gazelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Still Fresh after 50 Years | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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