Word: alvar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabeza de Vaca (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). World premiere of the last work of the late U.S. composer, George Antheil. Based on the travels of the 16th century Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the performance is by the CBS Symphony Orchestra and the Amor Artis chorus...
Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years...
Less Was More . . . The first part of the book deals with the old masters-Sullivan, Ferret, Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Finland's Alvar Aalto. Some readers may question Jones's conclusion that Wright and not Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of their generation, or that Wright's corkscrew Guggenheim Museum is his best work. (Perhaps because Le Corbusier is the most inaccessible of architects, Jones's chapter on him lacks the luster of the others...