Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-six-year-old C. Bersford Marshall is an architect with a reputation for doing swank Mayfair apartments in the modern taste. In his meteoric career Architect Marshall has designed only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed...
...Hall assumes a terrible significance; its resemblance to a ferry-boat has now a gruesome appropriateness. We now know that it was intended to symbolize the barge of Charon carrying its freight from shore to shore. We are too dejected even to mutter maledictions on the head of the architect possessed of this ghastly sense of humor. It is all rather...
...building, designed by Architect John Russell Pope, has on its façade an ornate icing of Renaissance cornices, spandrels, balustrades. Inside, however, it is as efficient a library building as exists in the country. Completely air conditioned, there are no windows below the third floor. Besides the stacks, there is a walnut-paneled reading room, a smaller study for advanced students, a photographic studio, a photostat room, offices, cafeteria for the staff...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...
Then came a wave of prosperity. He resumed his profession of architect, practicing for 20 years in an office on Manhattan's 42nd Street. As a painter he exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913 that introduced Matisse, Picasso and the French moderns to a baffled U. S. public. Since 1929 the Whitney Museum has bought three of his canvases. Since his architectural practice evaporated he has never made much money, but he has not lacked critical appreciation...