While Wright was not the first modernist to espouse the simplifying, streamlining benefits of the machine-made, he was among the most determined to give that lesson an elegant form suited just for the home.
The two men have been feuding over the costs involved in Mr Duncan Smith's ambition to streamline benefits and sharpen the incentives for people to get back into work.
The Employment Development Department upgraded its 30-year-old system over Labor Day weekend with the aim of streamlining benefits processing.
To be sure, some will argue that the system can be fixed or streamlined to benefit both justice and the budget.
The same streamlining benefits can be said for the individual.
The Disability and Universal Credit report, compiled by Disability Rights UK, the Children's Society and Citizens Advice, warns that few people have yet grasped the full impact of the changes, which will be implemented in October 2013, when a series of means-tested benefits are streamlined into a single new benefit, universal credit.
Still, the Modi government has restrained spending, sped environmental regulatory approvals, eliminated capital and certification barriers for new businesses, streamlined distribution of welfare benefits, improved sanitation, and attempted to move poorer Indians into the financial system.
For instance, last year the Hawkeye State became one of the first in the nation to trial digital driver's licenses, a bold move that will explore the benefits (like streamlined processes and cost reductions) and challenges (such as privacy and logistics) that the program will present to taxpayers.
Universal Credit (UC) – the brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary – seeks to streamline and integrate benefit payments for millions of claimants.
Sources close to the DWP's Universal Credit project, which seeks to streamline and automate benefit payments and tax credits for 12 million people, indicate that upwards of £270m has already been spent in government contracts with IBM, Hewlett Packard and BT.
