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...where his first task was to craft a pair of riding boots for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in The Thief of Baghdad. Today his legendary house has teamed up with director Baz Luhrmann and costume designer Catherine Martin to create a wardrobe of shoes for Nicole Kidman's character, a 1940s aristocrat, in the Outback epic Australia. Watch for the ruched red-velvet evening sandals and, yes, riding boots...
Anyone needing to find Maria Victoria Jimenez on a Sunday afternoon in November knew where to look: It was the month for bullfights in Lima, and Jimenez says she hasn't missed a bout in Peru's capital since her father started taking her along in the 1940s...
...home cooks reveled in their convenient new food storage box, plastics innovators pounced on an unmet need for containers that would seal in food and keep refrigerators smelling fresh. New Hampshire native Earl S. Tupper launched Tupperware in the 1940s, and by the following decade, he was marketing the containers via Tupperware "parties" where salespeople could demonstrate the distinctive "burp" that guaranteed longer lives for leftovers. (Tupperware was a roaring success; Tupper sold the company for $9 million in 1958.) For Americans who didn't want to purchase an entire line of pastel plastic containers, Dow Chemical started selling Saran...
There's a lot of mythology, some of it involving the East. There was a German scholar who claimed in the 1940s that Jesus traveled the Silk Road, lived in India and may have visited a monastery in Lhasa where there were Buddhist texts. The church of St. Thomas in India's Kerala state is the only place where Christ is not pictured on a cross but in a meditative samadhi posture. I also researched that period in history for Jesus's religious context, political and cultural contexts, the Jewish sects at the time, the occupation by Rome. Then...
Arts and Crafts. The Museum of Arts & Design, formerly known as the American Craft Museum, has found a new home on Columbus Circle in New York City. The museum has 250 pieces in its permanent collection - everything from Arts and Crafts furniture to teapots and 1940s jewelry. The museum's first temporary exhibition, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, features a jacket made out of dog tags and a dress made out of rubber gloves. If it all sounds a little mad to you, at least check out the building, designed by Portland, Ore.-based architect Brad Cloepfil. 2 Columbus Circle...