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| Anonymous American Designer Olympiad of the Air Medal 1930 copper alloy National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous American Designer Western Union ca. 1930 offset-lithograph (pamphlet cover) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Argentine Designer Hoteles Nogaró, Buenos Aires ca. 1925 lithograph (poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Designer Table Mat ca. 1925 stencil-printed cotton velveteen Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Designer Table Runner ca. 1925 stencil-printed cotton velveteen Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Otto Teegen Design for Dust Jacket ca. 1930 gouache on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Flowers and Beads ca. 1925 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Lattice ca. 1928-29 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Stripes ca. 1928-29 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Geometric Pattern ca. 1930 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Geometric Repeat ca. 1930 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Art Deco Border ca. 1930 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Blossoms in Compartments ca. 1925-35 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Designer Deer and Foliage ca. 1936 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Designer Floral Border ca. 1930 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous American Designer Evening Bag ca. 1920-30 metal mesh with synthetic lining Anacostia Community Museum, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous French Designer Matchbox 1926 enameled gold, diamonds Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
20 December 1945
My eye was weeping all on its own, apart from me, the water coursing down my cheek, and my heart was frightened. I felt abandoned. The watering of my eye seemed as gruesome as the dripping walls of the lavatory in an Industrial Revolution slum.
18 January 1946
At home when I drank lemon tea and ate three good chocolates, I read more of Haydon's life, and I thought of his writing in 1823, my writing in 1946 – private thoughts, like toy mice dancing in each century, then lying silent, squashed flat between the pages of a book, piled over and topped for ever with later layers of dancing mice.
12 May 1946
The quiet content came bubbling up, was with me every day then; and I remember how reluctant I was to go back to London and be with my father in Adam Street and Ryder Street, to have to go to Quaglino's and the Monseigneur Grill with him and to his club. Everywhere irked by the bodies and minds jostling one's own. Oh the dirtiness of herding together.
Yet it is most important to have people near one that one need hardly see. Without this consciousness of other human beings I think almost all of us are liable to be swamped by the power of matter. One's strength is not enough to bear this with no other help near.
– from The Journals of Denton Welch (who was born in 1915, gravely injured in 1935, then wrote the journals between 1942 and his early death in 1948), edited by Michael De-la-Noy (1984)