Involving the shortage of materials.
Proved crippling to the furniture industries of europe
and it was not until after the war that the tastes for pattern in furnishing materials and for exaggerations of style were allowed free rein.
the war imposed drastic cut-back in the furniture industry in europe. It was left to the new generation of american to persevere through the war year.
Despite certain manufacturing restriction, with the evolution of a new, softened, less overtly dogmatic version of functionalism