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It's hard to imagine that the historic Battle of Waterloo would turn out to have such a profound impact on the history of modern furniture design. After Napoleon was defeated, Europeans started replacing all the flamboyant furnishings that defined the emperor's reign with simpler pieces in their homes. This transformation eventually led to the Modernist Movement in the early 1900s and began the modern furniture revolution that included visionaries such as Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, Josef Hoffmann, Le Corbusier.