Word: aestheticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in 1952 in Reading, England, Simon Doonan began trimming windows on London's Savile Row. Really, Doonan began by hanging out with lunatic relations and dressing up like the queen. This set the stage for his mod-chic and poofy youth, during which period he had time and opportunity...
The result is a darkly comic vision of the future impact of a high-tech revolution that Sterling's earlier work helped create. He grew up in a Texas refinery town, the son of a petroleum engineer and grandson of a cattle rancher. While studying journalism at the University of...
Refined files I don't have the space to get into right now, but they mostly concern aesthetic offenses, and you're probably not cultivated or genteel enough to appreciate them anyway. Besides, the Sinatra files are all raw. Very raw.
A room in the Gropius Complex, a hulking concrete modernist box designed by renowned architect Walter Gropius runs $3,190. Like Gropius's aesthetic, the accommodations are rather minimalist.
It may be that no civilization, East or West, attained a greater refinement in the decorative arts than Edo Japan. Ceramics, lacquer and textiles were brought to an extraordinary pitch of aesthetic concentration by a large body of artisans whose collective skills have never been surpassed, in Japan or anywhere...