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...still famous mainly for his chairs, and the best-known works of today's European café-society designers--Philippe Starck, Enzo Mari--are chairs. Aalto, Breuer and Mies made their marks in the '20s partly by making chairs, and such contemporary architects as Gehry, Meier, Graves, Hollein, Venturi and Ambasz have all felt obliged to design chairs as well as buildings...
...many of Holl's own interiors. And he demanded that certain salient details -- a basswood-and-airplane silk screen from a Manhattan apartment, for instance -- be built right into the exhibit's walls. Fortunately, the museum indulged him: the result (on display together with a handsome exhibit of Emilio Ambasz buildings) is the liveliest MOMA architectural show in years and palpable evidence that Holl, at 41, is one of the most influential younger architects in America today...
Undaunted, Emilio Ambasz, 33, curator of design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, decided two years ago that what New York and other cities needed was a totally new look in cabs. He secured grants from the Mobil Oil Corp. and the U.S. Department of Transportation, sought advice from New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission, and drew up a 160-page study on taxis and their ideal specifications. He then persuaded five manufacturers to submit fresh designs based on the study. This week, Ambasz's dream, "The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today," went...
...just as many a Victorian bronze looked better with a lampshade than as sculpture, the use of neon tubing becomes laconically appropriate in Ettore Sottsass's "Asteroid" lamp. What goes on with such designers is not a passive borrowing of fine-art motifs but, as Museum Curator Emilio Ambasz puts it, an "ironic manipulation of the sociocultural meanings attached to existing forms...
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