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This beautiful exhibition celebrates the rigor and glamour of Minimalism, its dual ability to reduce art to a ready-made, quasi-industrial essence while also functioning as impeccable interior décor.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2015

For a handsome safe-deposit facility in New Jersey, Holl made the facade a grave, quasi-industrial grid, but on the inside were elegant wall sconces and depictions of the nine planets.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I liked the idea of being somewhat irreverent with this institutional, quasi-industrial, Everyman material," Stearns explains.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are the wealthy classes of countries with a lower industrial structure—nearer the archaic, quasi-industrial type—together with the later accessions of the wealthy classes in the more advanced industrial communities.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein