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Article: Design 2006: Latin America's designers find their place on the global stage.
- Article from:
- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Design is all around us. Whether it's a high-fashion dress, a high-rise apartment building or a most utilitarian office stapler, everything at some point required the brainpower and creativity of a designer who had to combine beauty with practicality. "Beauty without depth is just decoration," as the renowned German design firm Metadesign preaches.
Ranging from classic Mayan textiles to today's cutting-edge architecture, Latin America is tapping into its broad wealth of design experience and pushing many of its best onto the global stage. While Dominican-born Oscar de la Renta and Venezuela's Carolina Herrera may have been the region's top fashion designers for ...