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...human factor into what could otherwise have been a mechanical process. His instructions might call for one person to draw an irregular line and for others to attempt to imitate it. Early on, he brought color into the mix to produce agitated chromatic force fields. And in the '80s, after he moved for a few years from Manhattan to Spoleto, Italy, LeWitt began using big, broad phalanxes of colors so bright they play havoc with your retinas...
When Philippe Starck designed the Royalton Hotel, there were lamps that resembled animal horns and a champagne bar shaped like the inside of a bottle. "In the '80s, the boutique hotel was about design," says Starck. "Today we want something completely different. We don't speak about design." Starck's latest endeavor is SLS Hotels, a new brand meant to "re-explode" the luxury-hotel experience. The first property, SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, opens next month. Rather than the flashy design motifs of the past, the emphasis is on quieter indulgences. Design retailer Murray Moss will select objects...
...women; it's no coincidence that 007 and Playboy were the prime male icons of the Eisenhower-Kennedy era. Bond occasionally engaged in fisticuffs with a brigand, but that was just a different kind of workout. As played by Sean Connery and Roger Moore from the '60s through the '80s, Bond greeted each new threat to his life with an upper-class smile...
...mother is an expert in childhood development. Both parents, now in their 80s, still work in Chicago and live just two blocks from the Obamas' home in Hyde Park...
...performer and the performer who brings his gifts to the mainstream. His early-70s image as the acoustic guitar’s fresh young face gave way to a late-70s foray into that of the “singer-songwriter,” though to little success. The 80s brought a more experimental flavor to Kottke’s music, as he incorporated an even wider variety of sounds into his acoustic tableau. In the early 1980s, after sustaining chronic injuries to his hands due to an aggressive playing style and taking a brief hiatus, Kottke reinvented his technique...