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It was impossible to stay too long at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), so multifarious, so interesting and so often visionary were its exhibits. If we now take as a truism the Bauhaus dictum, "form follows function," the furniture at the Fair obeyed, with artisans and industrial producers alike creating furniture that was eminently useful. Beauty, to paraphrase Eric Gill, looked after herself; at ICFF 2014 she was there in abundance. Each booth was a small world unto itself, and I encountered many designers whose work was new to me, as well as, curatorially speaking, many old friends. I love to make sweeping generalizations, so I'll make one here, even if it is not apposite in all cases: if ICFF 2014 had an overarching theme or tendency, it was the innovative and ingenious attention to surface. New technologies, techniques and materials were perhaps more Erin Sullivan