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who was a fashion designer and singer. This gave him the opportunity to study the ways of the
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As well as his official reports, Muthesius also developed a career as an author, communicating his ideas and observations in an influential series of books and articles that saw him become a significant cultural figure in
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and for a few pence drink tea, have breakfast and dream that he is in fairy land." At the same time he lamented
Mackintosh's unrewarded struggle to "hold up the banner of Beauty in this dense jungle of ugliness."
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