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aesthetic. From the 1930s to the 1950s, her interior design work focused on ways to make domestic management easier for women. She paid special attention to the kitchen and the ways that good planning combined with well-designed appliances and workflows could reduce domestic labor. For example, in
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British Council for Art and Industry's 1937 report entitled "Working Class Home: Its Furnishing and Equipment."
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