This saying is associated with the German-born architect Mies Van Der Rohe.

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The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

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