"Borax" designs in the furniture industry in the 1920's and 1930's were used to describe furniture that is meaningless in design. This article in Furniture Age is a copy of a speech given by Mary Davis Gillies to a Women's Meeting at Bloomingdale's. It's interesting to note that there are some great designs in the photo here shown as "Borax" and taken by Richard Averell Smith and captioned "Modernism is simplifying many objects in the home"....in this photo, designs by Gilbert Rohde. Hardly considered "Borax" anymore.
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