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By the end of the century's opening decade, alas, Hoffmann and some Werkstatte colleagues were retreating into florid ornamental applique and comfortable Sacher-torte treacliness. Sharp geometry had only been a phase. At MOMA, a painted silver box (1910) is hardly recognizable as Hoffmann's work. In Viennese design...
It was the mola that also brought the Peace Corps to San Blas. These vibrantly colored, intricately patterned, hand-stitched cloth panels are essential not only to the Kuna woman's traditional dress but to her life. From her first crude attempts at the difficult reverse applique, a Kuna woman...
According to the Ribbon Project newsletter, "Participants may applique, batik, embroider, hook, needlepoint, paint, quilt, silk-screen, tie-die, weave, reproduce photographs, use iron-on fabric paints...to tell this nation that we love the earth and its people."
"American architecture," he believes, "is going all over the place, like pellets sprayed from a shotgun." He is particularly disenchanted with the postmodernist eclecticism that has become fashionable in the past decade. "You cannot evoke the past by simply taking historical symbols and using them as applique," he maintains."What...
As if ultimately unsatisfied with the parable of wealth, family and a man who must face his own trivial life. Bertolucci concludes the work on a religious note--but again be fails to integrate, slapping on symbolism like an applique. Barefoot, the son reborn dances with the workers in an...