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'Insulin' wallpaper. Crystallography by 
Dorothy Hodgkin, design by Robert Sevant 
for John Line & Sons

 'Beryl'* plates. Crystallography by Sir Lawrence Bragg
Design by Peter Wall for Wedgwood

'Beryl' lace. Crystallography by Sir Lawrence Bragg
Design by H. Webster for A. C. Gill

Living: The union of science and design for the Festival 
of Britain, 1951. All images from the V & A Museum.

*a group of minerals composed of hexagonal crystals

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