TOKYO -- In art and design, "less is more." So said the renowned German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the last director of Europe's famed Bauhaus school in the 1930s, in a classic dictum expressing modernism's reverence for stripped-down, serenely minimalist forms in buildings, objects, paintings and just about everything else.
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