Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...layman the answer seems as self-evident as which way is up. To those who have tried to design one the solution is more complicated. Says Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous." With no Chippendale to turn to, more and more modern architects are trying their hands at the designer's art, turning out a new kind of furniture to fill the empty rooms of their new buildings. The result is a family of modern classics in furniture, from bubble lamps...
Wright's cry was taken up in the 1920s by Germany's bustling, experimental Bauhaus School under Walter Gropius. It was at the Bauhaus that Architect Marcel Breuer designed the first chrome metal chair, whose descendants now populate the land as lawn or kitchen furniture. In Berlin, Mies van der Rohe first developed the cantilever metal chair, went on to produce the famed "Barcelona" chair, designed for his sumptuous German Pavilion at Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition. For the Barcelona chair he used chrome-plated stainless steel, covered the cushions with sumptuous kid leather. Cost...
France is full of new chapels by artists and architects and some who are not. After Matisse and the Vence chapel came Jean Cocteau recently to do murals for a chapel at Villefranche on the Riviera. The most peculiar chapel of all is the one designed by painter, sculptor, and architect Le Corbusier. His chapel looks like a French peasant maid's hat perched on the head of a cocker spaniel with the ears drooping over the top. It has astounded many, not least by the fact that it continues to stand. For the past few weeks, Robinson Hall...
...country doctor had planned, all five boys attended the University of Illinois. Guy Van Doren, 69, is now a semi-retired consulting architect in Clinton, Mich., runs a prosperous antique business on the side. Paul Van Doren, the youngest, 57, is an investment banker in New York City. Frank Van Doren, 65, is a retired farmer and agriculture expert in Tuscola...
While visitors flowed through the new gallery. Architect Kiesler beamed: "Look, and you can see the principle everywhere, continuous flow and continuous tension. This is not a marketplace. It is not a forbidding museum. It is a place where the paintings and sculpture invite the visitors to come to see them-'At home from...