This year's report said socialism with Chinese characteristics had entered a new era, and it drew up a two-stage development plan to build China into a "great modern socialist country" by mid-21st century.

Was I aware of what I was doing the next weekend when I checked into two mid-century modern furniture stores in a row?

This, along with our client's admiration of mid-century modern architecture (in particular Eichler's Homes), was to inform the architectural language of the home.