The Wallpaper* Polaroid Project

‘Don’t undertake a project unless it’s manifestly important and nearly impossible,’ said Edwin Land, Polaroid’s inventor. When Polaroid’s doors were closed last year these words spurred the factory workers in Enschede to keep the production lines intact and under one roof. They called their mission
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