11.   As consumers look back on the highlights of the past century, many are drawn to the clean, simple lines of modern design.

12.   A cheerful modern design for a no-nonsense place.

13.   A jazzy oval cocktail table with light ash top and tubular metal base looks right out of the classic modern design books.

14.   A year later, the necklace he commissioned for the museum was exhibited there in a show of Scandinavian modern design.

15.   Adam Bray, the London antiquarian whose collection of Masai breastplates inspired Galliano, sees the shapes of African furniture as the genesis of modern design.

16.   But modern designs showed to great advantage outdoors, where they added sharp shape and discipline to soft foliage and rough irregular textures like stone.

17.   Computer simulation has become a standard tool in both science and modern design of products ranging from drugs to bicycles.

18.   Companies are banking on consumers wanting to cull the best of modern design for homes they will decorate in the new century.

19.   Cooper says modern design has gotten a bad rap.

20.   Deterioration is not a problem bedeviling modern design collections alone, although it does seem that many a modern object is on an accelerated collision course with destiny.