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...nouveauists, who all felt a messianic urge to put art into everyday items. Dada and surrealism came along to mock them-but then the International Style, the architectural rubric of glass-and-steel boxes, came along to mock the mockers. Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, for example, all set about to design better chairs for man to plop in, and, save a sore sacroiliac or so, they succeeded...
Nowhere else in Europe does good design make itself so universally felt. The north has produced few great artists of the stature of Edvard Munch; but architects such as Finland's Alvar Aalto and Denmark's Arne Jacobsen are among the world's most admired. Dozens of northern artisans-ceramists, glass blowers, weavers, cabinetmakers and silversmiths-have made Scandinavia an international synonym for elegant functionalism. Whether in a car or a carpet, Scandinavian artisans at their best blend traditionally solid craftsmanship with a daring use of form or clever technique...
...world-famed Architect Walter Gropius settled for champagne and caviar when some 40 colleagues turned out to surprise him on his 80th birthday. Best surprise of all to the prolific former chairman of Harvard's department of architecture was the appearance of an old crony, Finnish Architect Hugo Alvar Aalto, 65. When the two men were through toasting each other, Gropius opened a letter notifying him of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "Isn't that nice?" he said. "And I don't have to go and give a speech-they're going...
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...