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Veronica's picks
The masters I've obsessed over the longest. Real research, real opinions, no mercy.

Junichi Arai
Experimental textile designer who fused metallic yarns with computerized jacquard looms, supplying Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo.
Sandor Katz
Author of The Art of Fermentation, the self-taught revivalist who globalized wild kraut, miso and live-culture pickling.
Walt Disney
Produced the first full-length animated feature, Snow White, and drove the multiplane camera and synchronized sound in animation.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Pioneered organic architecture with Fallingwater and Prairie-style homes that dissolved the wall between building and landscape.
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