Sgian Dubh,
No wasn`t joking, so I just googled Piet Mondrian and De stilj movement. I`m not that surprised we haven`t covered it as it was an art movement and I`m on a furniture making course, maybe at level 3 where design is looked in more detail? Martin Lane has no input into the course, he is an outside assessor, City & Guilds dictate the course structure.
Thanks for the explanation though, I like it when a discussion, book, article or whatever leads you somewhere and you discover something else, in this case totally off topic. Another example for me is watching a tv program called The Workshop That John Built, John interviewed Karl Holtey who I had not heard of at that time and David charlesworth, this led me on to read Davids books, which led me on to read James Krenov, which led me on to read David Pye and discover Peder Moos.
Regards, Mark