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"Streamliner" Meat slicer
1940 · Aluminum, steel, plastic (styrene plastic with dimethyl phthalate), paper and organic rests
12 1/2 × 21 × 18 in., 52.6 lb. (31.8 × 53.3 × 45.7 cm, 23.9 kg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Egmont Arens
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Egmont Arens was an American designer and industrial theorist who shaped the visual language of consumer goods across product design, packaging, and exhibition spaces from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. His practice prioritized functional clarity and material honesty within commercial contexts, translating modernist principles into everyday objects. Arens worked at the intersection of design theory and manufacture, establishing approaches to industrial form that influenced the American market during the modernist period.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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