Word: architects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieces of seating, storage, fabrics, rugs and accessories, produced over the past three years, loudly refute the tubular chrome-and-black-leather commandments of accepted modern style. Their form follows fantasy, and they owe more to the media messages of Marshall McLuhan than to the Bauhaus minimalism of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Memphis' latest whimsical collection of 66 pieces went partially on view earlier this month at the trendy Grace Designs showroom in Dallas, the Janus Gallery in Los Angeles and the Limn in San Francisco, and will soon open in New York City. The furniture draws smiles...
...prices are enough to send anyone to the couch. Some chairs go for $5,500, sofas for $6,200 and Architect Michael Graves' maple, brass and lacquered wood single-bed unit fetches a breathtaking $19,500. But Memphis' business-minded president Ernesto Gismondi, who also owns the highly successful Artemide line, is pushing for more marketable designs and prices. Memphis' latest edition sports straighter legs, more illuminating lamps and affordable price tags. "Fust," a metal-and-wood side chair by De Lucchi, for instance, sells...
...fine details as well as its broadest aspects, Michael Jackson's dream world has been under construction for 25 years, and its chief architect has not rested yet. Katherine Jackson likes to say her family got into show business because the only other available outlet for communal fantasy, the television, broke one day. "You know children; if they don't have TV to watch, then they have to do other things," says their mother. She may be oversimplifying some, but a blown-out television is not so readily replaced in the home of a Gary, Ind., steelworker with a family...
Senator Edward Kennedy called the Administration's record on issues affecting civil rights, women and the poor "a disgrace" and charged that Meese was "a key architect" of these policies. Kennedy tried to pinpoint Meese's role in the controversial 1982 Justice Department decision to reverse more than a decade of federal antidiscrimination policy and permit Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., to gain tax-exempt status, although the private school had a policy of racial segregation. In the outcry after the turnabout, Reagan claimed unpersuasively that he had merely wanted to make certain that the Internal Revenue...
...shift from an emphasis on technocratic grandiosity to humanistic sensitivity, an approach that other cities might heed, is largely due to the work of the Jerusalem Committee, initiated in 1968 by Mayor Kollek. The group is made up of some 100 architects, urbanists, historians and theologians from 25 countries; its members include Mumford, Architect Philip Johnson, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame, former CBS Chairman William S. Paley and German Educator Hellmut Becker. Asking the committee's advice is Kollek's way of saying that Jerusalem belongs not only to Jews...