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==Industrial design== Streamline style can be contrasted with [[Functionalism (architecture)|functionalism]], which was a leading design style in Europe at the same time. One reason for the simple designs in functionalism was to lower the production costs of the items, making them affordable to the large European working class.<ref>{{cite web|first=Trine |last=Nickelsen |title=Aluminium β en kulturhistorie |url= http://www.apollon.uio.no/artikler/2010/aluminium.html |date=15 June 2010|language=no |publisher=Apollon |access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref> Streamlining and functionalism represent two different schools in modernistic [[industrial design]]. <gallery mode="packed" heights="150"> File:Ericsson bakelittelefon 1931.jpg|The first [[bakelite]] telephone (1931) File:Philips 930.jpg|Philips Art Deco radio set (1931) File:Lurelle Guild. Vacuum Cleaner, ca. 1937..jpg|[[Aerus|Electrolux]] Vacuum cleaner (1937) File:Toaster1.jpg|Streamlined [[toaster]] File:Crosley radio.jpg|Streamlined [[Bakelite]] radio (1952) </gallery>
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